From 7c7ba2c6489fb8d46074b4b6a3291937878815de 2014-04-15 20:11:23
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-04-15 20:11:23
Subject: [PATCH] don't ensure_ascii in JSON messages in Session
---

diff --git a/IPython/kernel/zmq/session.py b/IPython/kernel/zmq/session.py
index a9e1ec4..0d53522 100644
--- a/IPython/kernel/zmq/session.py
+++ b/IPython/kernel/zmq/session.py
@@ -6,23 +6,10 @@ Also defined here are utilities for working with Sessions:
 * A SessionFactory to be used as a base class for configurables that work with
 Sessions.
 * A Message object for convenience that allows attribute-access to the msg dict.
-
-Authors:
-
-* Min RK
-* Brian Granger
-* Fernando Perez
 """
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
-#
-#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
+# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
 import hashlib
 import hmac
@@ -80,7 +67,7 @@ def squash_unicode(obj):
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # ISO8601-ify datetime objects
-json_packer = lambda obj: jsonapi.dumps(obj, default=date_default)
+json_packer = lambda obj: jsonapi.dumps(obj, default=date_default, ensure_ascii=False)
 json_unpacker = lambda s: jsonapi.loads(s)
 
 pickle_packer = lambda o: pickle.dumps(squash_dates(o),-1)