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This is true of JSON, but its not true of Javascript which gives no fucks about utf16 (or valid surrogate pairs). Its a very strange world where JSON and Javas
by kansface 13y ago
This is true of JSON, but its not true of Javascript which gives no fucks about utf16 (or valid surrogate pairs). Its a very strange world where JSON and Javascript have incompatible interpretations of strings.
http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding
- gnaritas 13y agoNot really as JSON is not valid JavaScript and requires its own parser. It's based on JavaScript, but it is not JavaScript.
- daxelrod 13y agoI was skeptical, but I did some searching, and you appear to be right! The difference seems to come down to string handling: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
- gnaritas 13y agoHa, same article where I first learned this.