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| -rw-r--r-- | requests/utils.py | 4 |
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diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py index 16d57762..db67938e 100644 --- a/requests/utils.py +++ b/requests/utils.py @@ -503,6 +503,10 @@ def get_encoding_from_headers(headers): if 'text' in content_type: return 'ISO-8859-1' + if 'application/json' in content_type: + # Assume UTF-8 based on RFC 4627: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt since the charset was unset + return 'utf-8' + def stream_decode_response_unicode(iterator, r): """Stream decodes a iterator.""" |