diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 423c44fd3c..99c6ce32f8 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
     Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
     Nebojša Dorđević
+    nesh
     Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
     Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
     oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
diff --git a/django/core/serializers/json.py b/django/core/serializers/json.py
index 72234a624b..15770f160e 100644
--- a/django/core/serializers/json.py
+++ b/django/core/serializers/json.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class Serializer(PythonSerializer):
     Convert a queryset to JSON.
     """
     def end_serialization(self):
-        simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream, cls=DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder)
+        simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream, cls=DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder, **self.options)
         
     def getvalue(self):
         return self.stream.getvalue()
diff --git a/docs/serialization.txt b/docs/serialization.txt
index 25199e7a50..694e2d25db 100644
--- a/docs/serialization.txt
+++ b/docs/serialization.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ Django "ships" with a few included serializers:
 .. _json: http://json.org/
 .. _simplejson: http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson
 
+Notes For Specific Serialization Formats
+----------------------------------------
+
+json
+~~~~
+
+If you are using UTF-8 (or any other non-ASCII encoding) data with the JSON
+serializer, you must pass ``ensure_ascii=False`` as a parameter to the
+``serialize()`` call. Otherwise the output will not be encoded correctly.
+
+For example::
+
+    json_serializer = serializers.get_serializer("json")
+    json_serializer.serialize(queryset, ensure_ascii=False, stream=response)
+
 Writing custom serializers
 ``````````````````````````