diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d404fb9..e599492 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 name = "json_repair"
-version = "0.25.3"
+version = "0.26.0"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 authors = [
   { name="Stefano Baccianella", email="4247706+mangiucugna@users.noreply.github.com" },
diff --git a/src/json_repair/json_repair.py b/src/json_repair/json_repair.py
index 086c361..91557bc 100644
--- a/src/json_repair/json_repair.py
+++ b/src/json_repair/json_repair.py
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ def repair_json(
     skip_json_loads: Optional[bool] = False,
     logging: Optional[bool] = False,
     json_fd: Optional[TextIO] = None,
+    ensure_ascii: Optional[bool] = True,
 ) -> Union[JSONReturnType, Tuple[JSONReturnType, List[Dict[str, str]]]]:
     """
     Given a json formatted string, it will try to decode it and, if it fails, it will try to fix it.
@@ -697,11 +698,13 @@ def repair_json(
     # It's useful to return the actual object instead of the json string, it allows this lib to be a replacement of the json library
     if return_objects or logging:
         return parsed_json
-    return json.dumps(parsed_json)
+    return json.dumps(parsed_json, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii)
 
 
 def loads(
-    json_str: str, skip_json_loads: bool = False, logging: bool = False
+    json_str: str,
+    skip_json_loads: Optional[bool] = False,
+    logging: Optional[bool] = False,
 ) -> Union[JSONReturnType, Tuple[JSONReturnType, List[Dict[str, str]]]]:
     """
     This function works like `json.loads()` except that it will fix your JSON in the process.
@@ -716,17 +719,24 @@ def loads(
 
 
 def load(
-    fd: TextIO, skip_json_loads: bool = False, logging: bool = False
+    fd: TextIO, skip_json_loads: Optional[bool] = False, logging: Optional[bool] = False
 ) -> Union[JSONReturnType, Tuple[JSONReturnType, List[Dict[str, str]]]]:
     """
     This function works like `json.load()` except that it will fix your JSON in the process.
     It is a wrapper around the `repair_json()` function with `json_fd=fd` and `return_objects=True`.
     """
-    return repair_json(json_fd=fd, skip_json_loads=skip_json_loads, logging=logging)
+    return repair_json(
+        json_fd=fd,
+        return_objects=True,
+        skip_json_loads=skip_json_loads,
+        logging=logging,
+    )
 
 
 def from_file(
-    filename: str, skip_json_loads: bool = False, logging: bool = False
+    filename: str,
+    skip_json_loads: Optional[bool] = False,
+    logging: Optional[bool] = False,
 ) -> Union[JSONReturnType, Tuple[JSONReturnType, List[Dict[str, str]]]]:
     """
     This function is a wrapper around `load()` so you can pass the filename as string
diff --git a/tests/test_json_repair.py b/tests/test_json_repair.py
index 81b96c6..257789a 100644
--- a/tests/test_json_repair.py
+++ b/tests/test_json_repair.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ def test_repair_json_from_file():
     import pathlib
     path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve()
 
-    assert(from_file(os.path.join(path,"invalid.json"))) == '[{"_id": "655b66256574f09bdae8abe8", "index": 0, "guid": "31082ae3-b0f3-4406-90f4-cc450bd4379d", "isActive": false, "balance": "$2,562.78", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 32, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Glover Rivas", "gender": "male", "company": "EMPIRICA", "email": "gloverrivas@empirica.com", "phone": "+1 (842) 507-3063", "address": "536 Montague Terrace, Jenkinsville, Kentucky, 2235", "about": "Mollit consectetur excepteur voluptate tempor dolore ullamco enim irure ullamco non enim officia. Voluptate occaecat proident laboris ea Lorem cupidatat reprehenderit nisi nisi aliqua. Amet nulla ipsum deserunt excepteur amet ad aute aute ex. Et enim minim sit veniam est quis dolor nisi sunt quis eiusmod in. Amet eiusmod cillum sunt occaecat dolor laboris voluptate in eiusmod irure aliqua duis.", "registered": "2023-11-18T09:32:36 -01:00", "latitude": 36.26102, "longitude": -91.304608, "tags": ["non", "tempor", "do", "ullamco", "dolore", "sunt", "ipsum"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Cara Shepherd"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Mason Farley"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Harriet Cochran"}], "greeting": "Hello, Glover Rivas! You have 7 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"}, {"_id": "655b662585364bc57278bb6f", "index": 1, "guid": "0dea7a3a-f812-4dde-b78d-7a9b58e5da05", "isActive": true, "balance": "$1,359.48", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 38, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Brandi Moreno", "gender": "female", "company": "MARQET", "email": "brandimoreno@marqet.com", "phone": "+1 (850) 434-2077", "address": "537 Doone Court, Waiohinu, Michigan, 3215", "about": "Irure proident adipisicing do Lorem do incididunt in laborum in eiusmod eiusmod ad elit proident. Eiusmod dolor ex magna magna occaecat. Nulla deserunt velit ex exercitation et irure sunt. Cupidatat ut excepteur ea quis labore sint cupidatat incididunt amet eu consectetur cillum ipsum proident. Occaecat exercitation aute laborum dolor proident reprehenderit laborum in voluptate culpa. Exercitation nulla adipisicing culpa aute est deserunt ea nisi deserunt consequat occaecat ut et non. Incididunt ex exercitation dolor dolor anim cillum dolore.", "registered": "2015-09-03T11:47:15 -02:00", "latitude": -19.768953, "longitude": 8.948458, "tags": ["laboris", "occaecat", "laborum", "laborum", "ex", "cillum", "occaecat"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Erna Kelly"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Black Mays"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Davis Buck"}], "greeting": "Hello, Brandi Moreno! You have 1 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625870da431bcf5e0c2", "index": 2, "guid": "b17f6e3f-c898-4334-abbf-05cf222f143b", "isActive": false, "balance": "$1,493.77", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 20, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Moody Meadows", "gender": "male", "company": "OPTIQUE", "email": "moodymeadows@optique.com", "phone": "+1 (993) 566-3041", "address": "766 Osborn Street, Bath, Maine, 7666", "about": "Non commodo excepteur nostrud qui adipisicing aliquip dolor minim nulla culpa proident. In ad cupidatat ea mollit ex est do deserunt proident nostrud. Cillum id id eiusmod amet exercitation nostrud cillum sunt deserunt dolore deserunt eiusmod mollit. Ut ex tempor ad laboris voluptate labore id officia fugiat exercitation amet.", "registered": "2015-01-16T02:48:28 -01:00", "latitude": -25.847327, "longitude": 63.95991, "tags": ["aute", "commodo", "adipisicing", "nostrud", "duis", "mollit", "ut"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Lacey Cash"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Gabrielle Harmon"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ellis Lambert"}], "greeting": "Hello, Moody Meadows! You have 4 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"}, {"_id": "655b6625f3e1bf422220854e", "index": 3, "guid": "92229883-2bfd-4974-a08c-1b506b372e46", "isActive": false, "balance": "$2,215.34", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 22, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Heath Nguyen", "gender": "male", "company": "BLEENDOT", "email": "heathnguyen@bleendot.com", "phone": "+1 (989) 512-2797", "address": "135 Milton Street, Graniteville, Nebraska, 276", "about": "Consequat aliquip irure Lorem cupidatat nulla magna ullamco nulla voluptate adipisicing anim consectetur tempor aliquip. Magna aliqua nulla eu tempor esse proident. Proident fugiat ad ex Lorem reprehenderit dolor aliquip labore labore aliquip. Deserunt aute enim ea minim officia anim culpa sint commodo. Cillum consectetur excepteur aliqua exercitation Lorem veniam voluptate.", "registered": "2016-07-06T01:31:07 -02:00", "latitude": -60.997048, "longitude": -102.397885, "tags": ["do", "ad", "consequat", "irure", "tempor", "elit", "minim"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Walker Hernandez"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Maria Lane"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Mcknight Barron"}], "greeting": "Hello, Heath Nguyen! You have 4 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625519a5b5e4b6742bf", "index": 4, "guid": "c5dc685f-6d0d-4173-b4cf-f5df29a1e8ef", "isActive": true, "balance": "$1,358.90", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 33, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Deidre Duke", "gender": "female", "company": "OATFARM", "email": "deidreduke@oatfarm.com", "phone": "+1 (875) 587-3256", "address": "487 Schaefer Street, Wattsville, West Virginia, 4506", "about": "Laboris eu nulla esse magna sit eu deserunt non est aliqua exercitation commodo. Ad occaecat qui qui laborum dolore anim Lorem. Est qui occaecat irure enim deserunt enim aliqua ex deserunt incididunt esse. Quis in minim laboris proident non mollit. Magna ea do labore commodo. Et elit esse esse occaecat officia ipsum nisi.", "registered": "2021-09-12T04:17:08 -02:00", "latitude": 68.609781, "longitude": -87.509134, "tags": ["mollit", "cupidatat", "irure", "sit", "consequat", "anim", "fugiat"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Bean Paul"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Cochran Hubbard"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Rodgers Atkinson"}], "greeting": "Hello, Deidre Duke! You have 6 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625a19b3f7e5f82f0ea", "index": 5, "guid": "75f3c264-baa1-47a0-b21c-4edac23d9935", "isActive": true, "balance": "$3,554.36", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 26, "eyeColor": "blue", "name": "Lydia Holland", "gender": "female", "company": "ESCENTA", "email": "lydiaholland@escenta.com", "phone": "+1 (927) 482-3436", "address": "554 Rockaway Parkway, Kohatk, Montana, 6316", "about": "Consectetur ea est labore commodo laborum mollit pariatur non enim. Est dolore et non laboris tempor. Ea incididunt ut adipisicing cillum labore officia tempor eiusmod commodo. Cillum fugiat ex consectetur ut nostrud anim nostrud exercitation ut duis in ea. Eu et id fugiat est duis eiusmod ullamco quis officia minim sint ea nisi in.", "registered": "2018-03-13T01:48:56 -01:00", "latitude": -88.495799, "longitude": 71.840667, "tags": ["veniam", "minim", "consequat", "consequat", "incididunt", "consequat", "elit"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Debra Massey"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Weiss Savage"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Shannon Guerra"}], "greeting": "Hello, Lydia Holland! You have 5 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "banana"}]'
+    assert from_file(os.path.join(path,"invalid.json")) == [{"_id": "655b66256574f09bdae8abe8", "index": 0, "guid": "31082ae3-b0f3-4406-90f4-cc450bd4379d", "isActive": False, "balance": "$2,562.78", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 32, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Glover Rivas", "gender": "male", "company": "EMPIRICA", "email": "gloverrivas@empirica.com", "phone": "+1 (842) 507-3063", "address": "536 Montague Terrace, Jenkinsville, Kentucky, 2235", "about": "Mollit consectetur excepteur voluptate tempor dolore ullamco enim irure ullamco non enim officia. Voluptate occaecat proident laboris ea Lorem cupidatat reprehenderit nisi nisi aliqua. Amet nulla ipsum deserunt excepteur amet ad aute aute ex. Et enim minim sit veniam est quis dolor nisi sunt quis eiusmod in. Amet eiusmod cillum sunt occaecat dolor laboris voluptate in eiusmod irure aliqua duis.", "registered": "2023-11-18T09:32:36 -01:00", "latitude": 36.26102, "longitude": -91.304608, "tags": ["non", "tempor", "do", "ullamco", "dolore", "sunt", "ipsum"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Cara Shepherd"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Mason Farley"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Harriet Cochran"}], "greeting": "Hello, Glover Rivas! You have 7 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"}, {"_id": "655b662585364bc57278bb6f", "index": 1, "guid": "0dea7a3a-f812-4dde-b78d-7a9b58e5da05", "isActive": True, "balance": "$1,359.48", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 38, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Brandi Moreno", "gender": "female", "company": "MARQET", "email": "brandimoreno@marqet.com", "phone": "+1 (850) 434-2077", "address": "537 Doone Court, Waiohinu, Michigan, 3215", "about": "Irure proident adipisicing do Lorem do incididunt in laborum in eiusmod eiusmod ad elit proident. Eiusmod dolor ex magna magna occaecat. Nulla deserunt velit ex exercitation et irure sunt. Cupidatat ut excepteur ea quis labore sint cupidatat incididunt amet eu consectetur cillum ipsum proident. Occaecat exercitation aute laborum dolor proident reprehenderit laborum in voluptate culpa. Exercitation nulla adipisicing culpa aute est deserunt ea nisi deserunt consequat occaecat ut et non. Incididunt ex exercitation dolor dolor anim cillum dolore.", "registered": "2015-09-03T11:47:15 -02:00", "latitude": -19.768953, "longitude": 8.948458, "tags": ["laboris", "occaecat", "laborum", "laborum", "ex", "cillum", "occaecat"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Erna Kelly"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Black Mays"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Davis Buck"}], "greeting": "Hello, Brandi Moreno! You have 1 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625870da431bcf5e0c2", "index": 2, "guid": "b17f6e3f-c898-4334-abbf-05cf222f143b", "isActive": False, "balance": "$1,493.77", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 20, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Moody Meadows", "gender": "male", "company": "OPTIQUE", "email": "moodymeadows@optique.com", "phone": "+1 (993) 566-3041", "address": "766 Osborn Street, Bath, Maine, 7666", "about": "Non commodo excepteur nostrud qui adipisicing aliquip dolor minim nulla culpa proident. In ad cupidatat ea mollit ex est do deserunt proident nostrud. Cillum id id eiusmod amet exercitation nostrud cillum sunt deserunt dolore deserunt eiusmod mollit. Ut ex tempor ad laboris voluptate labore id officia fugiat exercitation amet.", "registered": "2015-01-16T02:48:28 -01:00", "latitude": -25.847327, "longitude": 63.95991, "tags": ["aute", "commodo", "adipisicing", "nostrud", "duis", "mollit", "ut"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Lacey Cash"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Gabrielle Harmon"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ellis Lambert"}], "greeting": "Hello, Moody Meadows! You have 4 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"}, {"_id": "655b6625f3e1bf422220854e", "index": 3, "guid": "92229883-2bfd-4974-a08c-1b506b372e46", "isActive": False, "balance": "$2,215.34", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 22, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Heath Nguyen", "gender": "male", "company": "BLEENDOT", "email": "heathnguyen@bleendot.com", "phone": "+1 (989) 512-2797", "address": "135 Milton Street, Graniteville, Nebraska, 276", "about": "Consequat aliquip irure Lorem cupidatat nulla magna ullamco nulla voluptate adipisicing anim consectetur tempor aliquip. Magna aliqua nulla eu tempor esse proident. Proident fugiat ad ex Lorem reprehenderit dolor aliquip labore labore aliquip. Deserunt aute enim ea minim officia anim culpa sint commodo. Cillum consectetur excepteur aliqua exercitation Lorem veniam voluptate.", "registered": "2016-07-06T01:31:07 -02:00", "latitude": -60.997048, "longitude": -102.397885, "tags": ["do", "ad", "consequat", "irure", "tempor", "elit", "minim"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Walker Hernandez"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Maria Lane"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Mcknight Barron"}], "greeting": "Hello, Heath Nguyen! You have 4 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625519a5b5e4b6742bf", "index": 4, "guid": "c5dc685f-6d0d-4173-b4cf-f5df29a1e8ef", "isActive": True, "balance": "$1,358.90", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 33, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": "Deidre Duke", "gender": "female", "company": "OATFARM", "email": "deidreduke@oatfarm.com", "phone": "+1 (875) 587-3256", "address": "487 Schaefer Street, Wattsville, West Virginia, 4506", "about": "Laboris eu nulla esse magna sit eu deserunt non est aliqua exercitation commodo. Ad occaecat qui qui laborum dolore anim Lorem. Est qui occaecat irure enim deserunt enim aliqua ex deserunt incididunt esse. Quis in minim laboris proident non mollit. Magna ea do labore commodo. Et elit esse esse occaecat officia ipsum nisi.", "registered": "2021-09-12T04:17:08 -02:00", "latitude": 68.609781, "longitude": -87.509134, "tags": ["mollit", "cupidatat", "irure", "sit", "consequat", "anim", "fugiat"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Bean Paul"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Cochran Hubbard"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Rodgers Atkinson"}], "greeting": "Hello, Deidre Duke! You have 6 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "apple"}, {"_id": "655b6625a19b3f7e5f82f0ea", "index": 5, "guid": "75f3c264-baa1-47a0-b21c-4edac23d9935", "isActive": True, "balance": "$3,554.36", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 26, "eyeColor": "blue", "name": "Lydia Holland", "gender": "female", "company": "ESCENTA", "email": "lydiaholland@escenta.com", "phone": "+1 (927) 482-3436", "address": "554 Rockaway Parkway, Kohatk, Montana, 6316", "about": "Consectetur ea est labore commodo laborum mollit pariatur non enim. Est dolore et non laboris tempor. Ea incididunt ut adipisicing cillum labore officia tempor eiusmod commodo. Cillum fugiat ex consectetur ut nostrud anim nostrud exercitation ut duis in ea. Eu et id fugiat est duis eiusmod ullamco quis officia minim sint ea nisi in.", "registered": "2018-03-13T01:48:56 -01:00", "latitude": -88.495799, "longitude": 71.840667, "tags": ["veniam", "minim", "consequat", "consequat", "incididunt", "consequat", "elit"], "friends": [{"id": 0, "name": "Debra Massey"}, {"id": 1, "name": "Weiss Savage"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Shannon Guerra"}], "greeting": "Hello, Lydia Holland! You have 5 unread messages.", "favoriteFruit": "banana"}]
 
     import tempfile
     # Create a temporary file
@@ -246,7 +246,10 @@ def test_repair_json_from_file():
     # Write content to the temporary file
         with os.fdopen(temp_fd, 'w') as tmp:
             tmp.write("{key:value}")
-        assert(from_file(temp_path, logging=True)) == ({'key': 'value'}, [{'text': 'While parsing a string, we found a literal instead of a quote', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found no starting quote. Will add the quote back', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'context': '{key:value}', 'text': 'While parsing a string missing the left delimiter in object key context, we found a :, stopping here',}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we missed the closing quote, ignoring', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found a literal instead of a quote', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found no starting quote. Will add the quote back', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'context': '{key:value}', 'text': 'While parsing a string missing the left delimiter in object value context, we found a , or } and we couldn\'t determine that a right delimiter was present. Stopping here'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we missed the closing quote, ignoring', 'context': '{key:value}'}])
+        assert from_file(temp_path, logging=True) == ({'key': 'value'}, [{'text': 'While parsing a string, we found a literal instead of a quote', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found no starting quote. Will add the quote back', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'context': '{key:value}', 'text': 'While parsing a string missing the left delimiter in object key context, we found a :, stopping here',}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we missed the closing quote, ignoring', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found a literal instead of a quote', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we found no starting quote. Will add the quote back', 'context': '{key:value}'}, {'context': '{key:value}', 'text': 'While parsing a string missing the left delimiter in object value context, we found a , or } and we couldn\'t determine that a right delimiter was present. Stopping here'}, {'text': 'While parsing a string, we missed the closing quote, ignoring', 'context': '{key:value}'}])
     finally:
         # Clean up - delete the temporary file
-        os.remove(temp_path)
\ No newline at end of file
+        os.remove(temp_path)
+
+def test_ensure_ascii():
+    assert repair_json("{'test_中国人_ascii':'统一码'}", ensure_ascii=False) == '{"test_中国人_ascii": "统一码"}'
\ No newline at end of file