Fixed #29249 -- Made JSON and YAML serializers use Unicode by default.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/3.1.txt b/docs/releases/3.1.txt
index fbefef589f..16cb9c4e6e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.1.txt
@@ -668,6 +668,11 @@ Miscellaneous
 * The undocumented ``version`` parameter to the
   :class:`~django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.AsKML` function is removed.
 
+* :ref:`JSON and YAML serializers <serialization-formats>`, used by
+  :djadmin:`dumpdata`, now dump all data with Unicode by default. If you need
+  the previous behavior, pass ``ensure_ascii=True`` to JSON serializer, or
+  ``allow_unicode=False`` to YAML serializer.
+
 .. _deprecated-features-3.1:
 
 Features deprecated in 3.1
diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
index 93af47ef28..00322ac64b 100644
--- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
@@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ function::
 Also note that GeoDjango provides a :doc:`customized GeoJSON serializer
 </ref/contrib/gis/serializers>`.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.1
+
+    All data is now dumped with Unicode. If you need the previous behavior,
+    pass ``ensure_ascii=True`` to the ``serializers.serialize()`` function.
+
 ``DjangoJSONEncoder``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -315,6 +320,11 @@ again a mapping with the key being name of the field and the value the value::
 
 Referential fields are again represented by the PK or sequence of PKs.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.1
+
+    All data is now dumped with Unicode. If you need the previous behavior,
+    pass ``allow_unicode=False`` to the ``serializers.serialize()`` function.
+
 .. _topics-serialization-natural-keys:
 
 Natural keys