Added utf8 decoding on json.loads, script : connection.py, line: 156
diff --git a/.DS_Store b/.DS_Store
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af48d0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.DS_Store
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diff --git a/predictionio/connection.py b/predictionio/connection.py
index 2c79d64..04fe7b5 100644
--- a/predictionio/connection.py
+++ b/predictionio/connection.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
     self.body = body
     # Try to extract the json.
     try:
-      self.json_body = json.loads(body)
+      self.json_body = json.loads(body.decode('utf8'))
     except ValueError as ex:
       self.json_body = None