From: Blackie <mudsweatandears@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T08:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: "Some String \xAE".to_json gives an illegal/malformed error?

Never mind. Encoding on the DB is defaulting to latin-1.  What I
thought was unicode strings weren't. *Sigh* :)


On Oct 24, 6:11 pm, Blackie <mudsweatande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Call me crazy, but I must be missing some fundamental understanding
> here.
>
> >From what I can read on the JSON gem located here (http://
>
> json.rubyforge.org/) this should be working but I'm getting a
> JSON::GeneratorError. Any insight you may have is appreciated.
>
> Given this:
>
> require 'json'
> => true
>
> s = ["MyStuff \xAE"]
> => ["MyStuff \256"]
>
> s.to_json
> JSON::GeneratorError: source sequence is illegal/malformed
>         from (irb):16:in `to_json'
>         from (irb):16
>
> Since that string has a unicode char in it, should it not be escape to
> \uXXXX when re convert to JSON?
>
> Any help is appreciated.