Cherry pick '8995-json-parse-utf8' into '17-10-stable'
What does this MR do and why?
Customers are unable to upgrade from 17.10.x to any version due to a LOCALE encoding bug when the local JSON node file gets parsed.
Cherry-pick branch '8995-json-parse-utf8' into '17-10-stable'
Fixup: address JSON loading as fixed UTF-8 encoding
Related #8995 (closed)
See merge request !8284 (merged)
Merged-by: Robert Marshall rmarshall@gitlab.com Approved-by: Clemens Beck cbeck@gitlab.com Approved-by: Robert Marshall rmarshall@gitlab.com Co-authored-by: Jason Plum jplum@gitlab.com
(cherry picked from commit b2889970)
10b1c499 Fixup: address JSON loading as fixed UTF-8 encoding d2508f4b Remove a stray parens
Co-authored-by: Robert Marshall rmarshall@gitlab.com
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