Index: django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py
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--- django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py	(revision 7739)
+++ django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py	(working copy)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 # Regular expressions for recognizing HEXEWKB and WKT.
 hex_regex = re.compile(r'^[0-9A-F]+$', re.I)
 wkt_regex = re.compile(r'^(?P<type>POINT|LINESTRING|LINEARRING|POLYGON|MULTIPOINT|MULTILINESTRING|MULTIPOLYGON|GEOMETRYCOLLECTION)[ACEGIMLONPSRUTY\d,\.\-\(\) ]+$', re.I)
-json_regex = re.compile(r'^\{[\s\w,\.\"\'\:\[\]]+\}$')
+json_regex = re.compile(r'^\{[\s\w,\-\.\"\'\:\[\]]+\}$')
 
 #### OGRGeometry Class ####
 class OGRGeometry(object):