From: pwever <pmwever@...>
Date: 2008-10-01T13:18:59+09:00
Subject: Re: JSON.parse and unicode escape?

I am running into what seems to be a related problem with the
following code:

irb
>> require 'json'
=> true
>> JSON.parse('{"s":"\uddb0"}')
JSON::ParserError: source sequence is illegal/malformed near uddb0"}
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/json-1.1.3/lib/json/common.rb:122:in
`parse'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/json-1.1.3/lib/json/common.rb:122:in
`parse'
	from (irb):2
	from :0
>>

I don't know enough about unicode to really understand what is being
escaped here, but the following unicode characters, very close in
range (I assume) do not throw an error:
"\ucdb0", "\uedb0", "\ud7b0"

I also validated the JSON string ('{"s":"\uddb0"}') successfully at
http://www.jsonlint.com/ and in Python.

Any ideas of what might be the problem?
Are there any alternative JSON parsers for ruby?

Thank you very much // pascal