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2515	[patch] json serializer don't pass options to simplejson.dump	nesh <nesh [at] studioquattro [dot] co [dot] yu>	Adrian Holovaty	"I'm lost a few hours finding out why my utf-8 encoded strings end up with double-byte characters encoded like {{{\u00xx\u00xx}}}. Finally I found {{{ensure_ascii=False}}} option but it didn't work.

... (time passes) ...

Well, it seems that options are not passed to SimpleJSON -- patch attached.

Also, it's worth mentioning in docs that if you have utf-8 encoded data you '''must''' use  {{{ensure_ascii=False}}} option -- or simply make that default."	defect	closed	Core (Other)	dev	major	fixed	patch	nesh@…	Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0