[Python-ideas] Re: A shortcut to load a JSON file into a dict : json.loadf

Christopher Barker writes:

encoding=None: this is the important one -- json is always UTF-8 yes?

Standard JSON is always UTF-8. Nevertheless, I'm quite sure that there's a ton of Japanese in Shift JIS, including some produced by default in Python on Windows. I'll bet the same is true of GBK for Chinese, and maybe even ISO-8859-1 in Europe.