Re: [Json] On characters and code points

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 07 June 2013 17:20 UTC

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Stefan Drees scripsit:

> and what about { "Decorate my slash": "\/" } and "general-purpose
> string processing software". Isn't this also a case, where you need
> a "pre-conditioner" that replaces the JSON specific escape sequence
> "\" with "/" before feeding it into "general-purpose string
> processing software" :-?)

That would be the JSON parser.

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