Opening the JSON file in Notepad++ certainly gives some insight... It says it's encoded in USC-2 LE BOM. Converting it to UTF-8 with BOM in Notepad++ solves the problem.
Question though, why does dumpdata create files with an encoding that can not be used out of the box with loaddata? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/b3f4fbbf-bcad-4376-8ed1-aa476b8c8a88%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.