when jQuery.parseJSON() throws an invalid json excepion for a Json retrieved from a django backend

parsejson.js

// get the json object in the django template :
var data = "{{object|safe}}";
// Parse the JSON data
try
{
    // Use jquery's default parser
    data = $.parseJSON(data);
}
catch(e)
{
    /*
     * Fix a bug where strange unicode chars in the json data makes the jQuery
     * parseJSON() throw an error (only on some servers), by using the old eval() - slower though!
     */
    data = eval( "(" + data + ")" );
}