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868188068 MDU6SXNzdWU4NjgxODgwNjg= 257 Insert from JSON containing strings with non-ascii characters are escaped as unicode for lists, tuples, dicts. 6586811 closed 0     0 2021-04-26T20:46:25Z 2021-05-19T02:57:05Z 2021-05-19T02:57:05Z CONTRIBUTOR  

JSON Test File (test.json):

json [ { "id": 123, "text": "FR Théâtre" }, { "id": 223, "text": [ "FR Théâtre" ] } ]

Command to import:

bash sqlite-utils insert test.db text test.json --pk=id

Resulting table view from datasette:

Original, db.py line 2225:

python return json.dumps(value, default=repr)

Fix, db.py line 2225:

python return json.dumps(value, default=repr, ensure_ascii=False)

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