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26721	"""loaddata"" can not load data generated by ""dumpdata"" due to encoding issues"	OBu	nobody	"When I ""dumpdata"" my database on my Windows 8.1 machine and load the dumped file with ""loaddata"", I get encoding errors. 

Opening the dumped file with ntepad++, setting the encoding to UTF-8 and saving it again helps. 

[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/NAHD058Gh_Q/discussion A django-users thread] describes the problem in detail so it seems I'm not alone...

It might not be a Django problem but a windows pipeline-issue (I was using the powershell), but it is a bit embarrassing. "	Bug	new	Core (Serialization)	1.9	Normal		dumpdata loaddata		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0