Using Python simplejson for transmitting JSON to another server results in unicode encoding problems

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Published on 2011-01-08T23:01:04Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 23:53 UTC
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Hi there,

I'm encoding a string with Python's simplejson library with special characters:

hello testing

spécißl characters

plusses: +++++

special chars :œ?´®†¥¨ˆøp“ß?ƒ©??°¬O˜çv?˜µ==

However, when I encode it and transmit it to the other machine (using POST), it turns out like this:

{'message': ['{"body": "hello testing sp\\u00e9ci\\u00dfl characters\\n\\nplusses: \\n\\nspecial chars :\\u0153\\u2211\\u00b4\\u00ae\\u2020\\u00a5\\u00a8\\u02c6\\u00f8\\u03c0\\u201c\\u00df\\u2202\\u0192\\u00a9\\u02d9\\u2206\\u02da\\u00ac\\u03a9\\u2248\\u00e7\\u221a\\u222b\\u02dc\\u00b5\\u2264\\u2265"}']}

The + signs are completely stripped and the rest are in this unicode(?) format. My code for this is:

data = {'body': data_string}
data_encoded = json.dumps(data)

Any ideas? Thanks!

Edit: I've tried using json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False) but it results in a UnicodeError ordinal not in range error.

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