Unicode/UTF-8 confusion

[Tom Stambaugh]

I want to thank this community -- especially Carsten Haese -- for your 
patience with my confusion and for your several suggestions about how to 
resolve the issue. As a newcomer to python-list, I appreciate your 
willingness to respond to my request and your graciousness in helping me see 
the contribution I made to my issue.

I now see that, as is often the case, I was asking the wrong question. The 
immediate problem that this exchange helped me identify is that I needed to 
escape the json string *again* on its way through my html wrapper. The far 
more elegant approach sketched by Carsten is the simple act of dropping the 
apostrophes in my own wrapper. I love that! It works, it's elegant, and it 
typifies the things that an outside "pair of eyes" can see far more 
immediately than me. Thank you, Carsten.

All in all, this was an extraordinarily helpful exchange. Thank you all, and 
I hope I can perhaps make similar contributions.