From cb348b5bfe0f7466b962fe62bb0f7320e74a1cc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason <jtoy@grids.local>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 10:48:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] allow serialize_to_str to work with non ascii when dumping
 via json.dumps

---
 autogen/function_utils.py   | 2 +-
 test/test_function_utils.py | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/autogen/function_utils.py b/autogen/function_utils.py
index dd225fd4719..6b9b6f5b129 100644
--- a/autogen/function_utils.py
+++ b/autogen/function_utils.py
@@ -353,4 +353,4 @@ def serialize_to_str(x: Any) -> str:
     elif isinstance(x, BaseModel):
         return model_dump_json(x)
     else:
-        return json.dumps(x)
+        return json.dumps(x, ensure_ascii=False)
diff --git a/test/test_function_utils.py b/test/test_function_utils.py
index adddbf32e26..0475044b49f 100644
--- a/test/test_function_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_function_utils.py
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ async def f(
     assert actual[1] == "EUR"
 
 
+def test_serialize_to_str_with_nonascii() -> None:
+    assert serialize_to_str("中文") == "中文"
+
+
 def test_serialize_to_json() -> None:
     assert serialize_to_str("abc") == "abc"
     assert serialize_to_str(123) == "123"