How to enforce encoding when using "manage.py dumpdata --format=json" ?

Using Django Using the ORM
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I’ve had trouble with dumping and loading data using the management commands dumpdata and loaddata, which I determined to be caused by non-ascii characters in the fields’ values.
After following into the rabbit hole of Django source code, I’ve found that:

  • in django/django/core/management/commands/dumpdata.py (from line 228 on), no explicit encoding is set to the output file.
  • in line 32 of django/django/core/serializers/json.py there is self.json_kwargs.setdefault("ensure_ascii", False)

Therefore, I suspect some conflict between encodings of the fields’ string values and that used to write the file.
So, is it possible to enforce utf-8 on the output file or, alternatively, ascii on the json markup?

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My bad, I was using python manage.py dumpdata > file.json instead of python manage.py dumpdata -o file.json and then windows cmd messed up the encoding.