Python: Bedrock JSON content blocks escape non-ASCII characters to \uXXXX

[kimnamu]

Summary

Thanks for Agent Framework and the Bedrock integration — it's been great to use.

When the Bedrock Converse API returns a structured json content block, BedrockChatClient serializes it to text with json.dumps(json_value). Because json.dumps defaults to ensure_ascii=True, any non-ASCII characters (CJK, emoji, accented Latin, etc.) are escaped to \uXXXX sequences and surface garbled to the user.

Location: python/packages/bedrock/agent_framework_bedrock/_chat_client.py, in _parse_message_contents:

if (json_value := block.get("json")) is not None:
    contents.append(Content.from_text(text=json.dumps(json_value), raw_representation=block))
    continue

Reproduction

A json content block carrying {"greeting": "你好世界", "emoji": "🎉"} is turned into the text:

{"greeting": "你好世界", "emoji": "🎉"}

instead of the readable:

{"greeting": "你好世界", "emoji": "🎉"}

Expected behavior

Non-ASCII characters should be preserved as-is, matching the rest of the codebase. The sibling OpenAI client uses ensure_ascii=False (python/packages/openai/agent_framework_openai/_chat_client.py), and 16+ call sites across the repo already pass ensure_ascii=False for user-facing / span serialization. This one line in the Bedrock client is the outlier. PR #3894 ("Python: Fix non-ascii chars in span attributes") fixed the same class of issue in observability.

Proposed fix

Add ensure_ascii=False to that single json.dumps call, with a regression test. I'd like to take this on — PR to follow.

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Agent analysis

Repro: BedrockChatClient._parse_message_contents() in python/packages/bedrock/agent_framework_bedrock/_chat_client.py line 701 calls json.dumps(json_value) without ensure_ascii=False, escaping all non-ASCII characters in JSON content blocks to \uXXXX sequences. Minimal repro: call _parse_message_contents with content_blocks=[{"json": {"greeting": "你好世界"}}] and assert the resulting Content text preserves the CJK characters. Line 807 (schema serialization) has the same issue.

• Failing test: python/packages/bedrock/tests/test_bedrock_json_unicode_issue6627.py
• Files examined: python/packages/bedrock/agent_framework_bedrock/_chat_client.py, python/packages/openai/agent_framework_openai/_chat_client.py, python/packages/bedrock/pyproject.toml, python/packages/bedrock/tests/test_bedrock_client.py
• Tests run: python/packages/bedrock/tests/test_bedrock_json_unicode_issue6627.py
• Current version: 1.0.0b2604