Django dumpdata UTF-8 (Unicode)

Question

Is there a easy way to dump UTF-8 data from a database?

I know this command:

manage.py dumpdata > mydata.json

But the data I got in the file mydata.json, Unicode data looks like:

"name": "\u4e1c\u6cf0\u9999\u6e2f\u4e94\u91d1\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8"

I would like to see a real Unicode string like 全球卫星定位系统 (Chinese).

Answer 1

After struggling with similar issues, I've just found, that xml formatter handles UTF8 properly.

manage.py dumpdata --format=xml > output.xml

I had to transfer data from Django 0.96 to Django 1.3. After numerous tries with dump/load data, I've finally succeeded using xml. No side effects for now.

Hope this will help someone, as I've landed at this thread when looking for a solution..