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JSON output no longer escapes non-ASCII characters, new --ascii option (#777)

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Closes #625

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.. _cli_query_json_ascii:
Unicode characters in JSON
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JSON output includes unicode characters directly, without escaping them:
.. code-block:: bash
sqlite-utils dogs.db "select '日本語' as text"
.. code-block:: output
[{"text": "日本語"}]
Use ``--ascii`` to escape non-ASCII characters as ``\uXXXX`` sequences instead:
.. code-block:: bash
sqlite-utils dogs.db "select '日本語' as text" --ascii
.. code-block:: output
[{"text": "\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e"}]
The ``--ascii`` option can help on systems that cannot display or process UTF-8, such as Windows consoles using a legacy code page. On Windows, setting the ``PYTHONUTF8=1`` environment variable is an alternative fix for ``UnicodeEncodeError`` crashes when redirecting output to a file.
.. _cli_query_binary_json:
Binary data in JSON