Merge pull request #127 from Genzer/master

Add support for preserving Unicode characters in jsonpatch CLI

Author: stefankoegl

bin/jsonpatch

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ parser.add_argument('-i', '--in-place', action='store_true',
                     help='Modify ORIGINAL in-place instead of to stdout')
 parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version',
                     version='%(prog)s ' + jsonpatch.__version__)
-
+parser.add_argument('-u', '--preserve-unicode', action='store_true',
+                    help='Output Unicode character as-is without using Code Point')
 
 def main():
     try:
@@ -72,8 +73,8 @@ def patch_files():
 
     # By this point we have some sort of file object we can write the 
     # modified JSON to.
-
-    json.dump(result, fp, indent=args.indent)
+    
+    json.dump(result, fp, indent=args.indent, ensure_ascii=not(args.preserve_unicode))
     fp.write('\n')
 
     if args.in_place:

doc/commandline.rst

@@ -74,10 +74,12 @@ The program ``jsonpatch`` is used to apply JSON patches on JSON files. ::
       PATCH            Patch file
 
     optional arguments:
-      -h, --help       show this help message and exit
-      --indent INDENT  Indent output by n spaces
-      -v, --version    show program's version number and exit
-
+     -h, --help             show this help message and exit
+     --indent INDENT        Indent output by n spaces
+     -b, --backup           Back up ORIGINAL if modifying in-place
+     -i, --in-place         Modify ORIGINAL in-place instead of to stdout
+     -v, --version          show program's version number and exit
+     -u, --preserve-unicode Output Unicode character as-is without using Code Point
 
 Example
 ^^^^^^^