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0 pointskansface12y ago0 comments

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

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gnaritas12y ago· 2 in thread

Not really as JSON is not valid JavaScript and requires its own parser. It's based on JavaScript, but it is not JavaScript.

daxelrod12y ago

I 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

gnaritas12y ago

Ha, same article where I first learned this.

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