title: JSON serializing and deserializing with special characters with RAILS
body: <p>I really feel a bit stupid as to what to do to make this simple line work, I looked around, and no answer seemed to really answer this, can anyone can tell me how to serialize and deserialize something as simple as that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>JSON.parse("É".to_json)
  JSON::ParserError: 757: unexpected token at '"\u00e9"'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>The real problem was more akin to saving a hash in the database with a é in the string, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"Hu00c9MO":"JOUR"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems the string is not good, and I can't bring back the é after decoding from JSON</p>