[22:19:22] <mahir256>	 are there ever instances where requests to the MediaWiki API for JSON output _don't_ return a UTF-8 result?
[22:25:36] <urbanecm>	 mahir256: if utf8=false, it will escape non-ASCII stuff
[22:26:08] <urbanecm>	 with utf8=true, it's documented to not escape and instead return UTF-8 strings for.._most_ non-ascii chars
[22:28:37] <mahir256>	 ah ok, good to know
[22:29:54] <mahir256>	 just ran into issues with mwoauth where bytes-encoded Unicode strings (response.content, where 'response' is a requests.response) failed to get decoded properly
[22:31:10] <mahir256>	 so as long as utf8=false is never set anywhere I can get away with using response.text instead of trying to decode response.content
[22:32:23] <mahir256>	 (I wonder if anyone else ever ran into unicode issues with oauth before)
[22:39:16] <urbanecm>	 this was about the fields in JSON, I'd recommend to use response.json() which should work (it always did for me :))
[22:39:32] <urbanecm>	 for oauth, IIRC it doesn't return a valid JSON if the auth is bad
[22:42:11] <urbanecm>	 (but maybe that's only for the special pages for the actual user flow? not sure)