Document JSON unicode change in Unreleased changelog section

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Changelog
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.. _unreleased:
Unreleased
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- JSON output from the command-line tool no longer escapes non-ASCII characters, so ``sqlite-utils data.db "select '日本語' as text"`` now outputs ``[{"text": "日本語"}]``. This matches how values were already stored by ``insert`` and how CSV/TSV output already behaved. A new ``--ascii`` option restores the previous behavior of escaping non-ASCII characters, for output destinations that cannot handle UTF-8 - see :ref:`cli_query_json_ascii`. The option is available on the ``query``, ``rows``, ``search``, ``tables``, ``views``, ``triggers``, ``indexes`` and ``memory`` commands. The ``convert --multi --dry-run`` preview and ``plugins`` output also no longer escape non-ASCII characters. (:issue:`625`)
.. _v4_0rc3:
4.0rc3 (2026-07-05)