Hi everyone,

I've always found character sets and encodings complicated to understand and here I'm faced with another problem. My apologies for any inaccuracies. I'll do my best.

I'm requesting data from a server which returns JSON. In the HTTP headers it also returns the character set like so:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

I'm using the JSON library in Python to load the JSON using the json.loads method. When I pass it the returned JSON, it gives me a dictionary in Unicode. I've Googled around and I know that JSON should return Unicode as JavaScript strings are Unicode objects. How can I load the JSON as UTF-8? I would like to use the same encoding as specified in the response header.

I've read this post but it didn't help.

Thank you.