title: Parse JSON containing "\u as UTF-8 bytes" in Python
body: <p>I have a JSON file from the Facebook's "Download your data" feature and instead of escaping Unicode characters as their codepoint number, it's escaped just as a sequence of UTF-8 bytes.</p>
  
  <p>For example, the letter á (U+00E1) is escaped in the JSON file as <code>\u00c3\u00a1</code> instead of <code>\u00e1</code>. 0xC3 0xA1 is UTF-8 encoding for U+00E1.</p>
  
  <p>The <code>json</code> library in Python 3 decodes it as Ã¡ which corresponds to U+00C3 and U+00A1.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to parse such a file correctly (so that I get the letter á) in Python?</p>