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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.

