huggingface / huggingface/datasets

Can't Read List of JSON Files Properly

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Description

### Describe the bug

Trying to read a bunch of JSON files into Dataset class but default approach doesn't work. I don't get why it works when I read it one by one but not when I pass as a list :man_shrugging:

The code fails with

```
ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Invalid value. in row 0
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte
DatasetGenerationError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
```

### Steps to reproduce the bug

This doesn't work

```
from datasets import Dataset

# dir contains 100 json files.
Dataset.from_json("/PUT SOME PATH HERE/*")
```

This works:
```
from datasets import concatenate_datasets

ls_ds = []

for file in list_of_json_files:
ls_ds.append(Dataset.from_json(file))

ds = concatenate_datasets(ls_ds)

```

### Expected behavior

I expect this to read json files properly as error is not clear

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 2.17.0
- Platform: Linux-6.5.0-15-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
- Python version: 3.10.13
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.20.2
- PyArrow version: 15.0.0
- Pandas version: 2.2.0
- `fsspec` version: 2023.10.0

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