Exception has occurred: UnicodeDecodeError

[mborsetti]

Exception has occurred: UnicodeDecodeError
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc9 in position 3237: invalid continuation byte

This exception is raised when calling r.json() on a Response where the r.encoding is iso-8859-1.

In _models.py, the Responseclass'jsonmethod returnsjsonlib.loads(self.content, **kwargs)`.

However, the Python documentation tells us that when bytes are used as an argument, the input encoding should be UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.

Returning jsonlib.loads(self.text, **kwargs) fixes this Exception.

Potentially, the best solution is to use a conditional return, e.g.

return jsonlib.loads(self.bytes, **kwargs) if self.encoding in ('utf-8', 'utf-16', 'utf-32') else jsonlib.loads(self.text, **kwargs)

[lovelydinosaur]

iso-8859-1 isn't a valid encoding for JSON.

Eg. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt / https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259#section-8.1

• 2006 - "JSON text SHALL be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is UTF-8."
• 2017 - "JSON text exchanged between systems that are not part of a closed ecosystem MUST be encoded using UTF-8"