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Bug 703212 - Handle escaped unicode characters
Handle escaped unicode characters
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: json-glib
Classification: Core
Component: Parser
git master
Other Linux
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Assigned To: json-glib-maint
json-glib-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 697218
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-27 19:14 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2013-07-24 01:02 UTC
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Description Zeeshan Ali 2013-06-27 19:14:00 UTC 
While the RFC says that all strings are supposed to be unicode characters, it also says "Any character may be escaped" (2.5. Strings) so json-glib should correctly handle (i-e unescape such characters) on parsing JSON strings. In geocode-glib, we want to use a service that escaped every non-ASCII character:

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Lyon&format=json&addressdetails=1&limit=1
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2013-07-24 01:02:43 UTC 
I think I was wrong, something somewhere *is* unescaping those. So "\u00e3" is converted to "\303\243", which is the same as "ã".