title: Emoji problem reading json file in python
body: <p>I have a json file with a string containing emojis</p>
  <pre><code>{
     &quot;messages&quot;: &quot;This is a test -bla-bla test.&quot;
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>My python code is:</p>
  <pre><code>with open('config.json', 'r') as config_file:
      config = json.load(config_file)
  print(config[&quot;messages&quot;])
  </code></pre>
  <p>The output is:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>This is a test ðŸ“‘-bla-bla test.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>How can I solve this emoji encoding problem?</p>