Some of the data I return from web2py is unicode. By default, the
text that is return is converted to str:
"Table d'h\u00f4te"
As you can see, the unicode has been escaped. This happens because
simplejson.dumps always returns str. To solve this, I had to do
this:
import gluon.contrib.simplejson as simplejson
return unicode(simplejson.dumps(make_result_list(msg_out, rows,
success)), 'unicode-escape')
"Table d'hôte"
I attempted to put my code into serializers.py (the json() method),
but webpy would fail to start up for some reason that I don't have the
time to investigate further. This isn't an error, because the
behaviour of simplejson.dumps is documented, but it was certainly a
gotcha in the sense that it took me a few hours to figure out what was
happening.
