ner.manual and terms.to_patterns save to utf-16

[ines (Ines Montani)]

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db-out utf-8 character problem

Hi! This is just the default behaviour of json.dumps, which is called under the hood to export your data. It's the safest way to represent utf8 and prevent encoding issues. When you load the text back in Python etc., the characters will look as expected again. You can re-export the data without ASCII-only characters – you just need to be careful you don't end up with encoding issues. Also see here for details: