gh-87506: Document that json.load*() can raise UnicodeDecodeError (#127355)

Co-authored-by: Erlend Aasland <erlend@python.org>

diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index cf516cf3dc1d2937465837ec7d48a749783b410f..41a09b40d7e88b9dca00fdc0d51ffad22f3f5aed 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -324,6 +324,10 @@ Basic Usage
    :raises JSONDecodeError:
       When the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document.
 
+   :raises UnicodeDecodeError:
+      When the data being deserialized does not contain
+      UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoded data.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
 
       * Added the optional *object_pairs_hook* parameter.