[issue27765] Accept UTF-8 encoded bytes as input to json.loads()

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[issue27765] Accept UTF-8 encoded bytes as input to json.loads()

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[issue27765] Accept UTF-8 encoded bytes as input to json.loads()

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This looks as a duplicate of issue10976. See also issue17909 (which covers not just UTF-8, but UTF-16 and UTF-32, in conforming with RFC 4627). -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker

[issue27765] Accept UTF-8 encoded bytes as input to json.loads()

New submission from Nick Coghlan: In two recent Python 3 porting projects, a key incompatibility I encountered was that "json.loads(data)" on UTF-8 encoded bytes required an explicit decoding step under Python 3, rather than implicitly decoding the data as UTF-8. Unlike many other wire formats