Facebook Json - Problems with accentuation - Python

Question

I’m trying to import the Friends.json file from Facebook, but I’m having trouble accentuating it. Friends.json file is something like:

{
  "friends": [
    {
      "name": "Marco Aur\u00c3\u00a9lio Ferreira",
      "timestamp": 1617453534
    },
    {
      "name": "Tha\u00c3\u00ads Everton D. Soares Papaleo",
      "timestamp": 1617420287
    }
          ]
 }

The code I’m using is:

# encoding in UTF-8
import json

with open("friends.json", "r", encoding='UTF-8') as read_file:
    data = json.load(read_file)
    data = (data['friends'])
    for n in data:
        nome = n['name'] 
        print(nome)

However the return is as follows:

Marco Aurélio Ferreira
Thaís Everton D. Soares Papaleo

Honestly I’ve tried everything, but I can’t fix the accent. Someone has some light?

Answer 1

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import json

with open("friends.json", "r", encoding='UTF-8') as read_file:
    data = json.load(read_file)
    data = (data['friends'])
    for n in data:
        nome = n['name'].encode('latin-1').decode('unicode-escape').encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')
    print(nome)