TextDecode JSON array

[Mike Bonner]

Looks like utf16 based on this info I found here:
https://codepoints.net/U+00F1?lang=en
SystemRepresentation
Nº 241
UTF-8 C3 B1
UTF-16 00 F1

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 8:22 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Here's a test sample of some UTF8 I get back from a server:
>
>   {"UserID":48,"UserName":"Eduardo Ba\u00f1uls","UserLoginName":"ebanu"}
>
>
> If I run textDecode(<string>,"UTF8") on it, I get it back unaltered. Does
> anyone recognize the text encoding? It doesn't seem to be UTF8.
>
> If I then run JSONToArray on it, I get a LC array and the name is changed
> to this:
>
>   Eduardo Bañuls
>
> And when I run textDecode on *that* it comes out right:
>
>   Eduardo Bañuls
>
> So what's the first string? JSONtoArray seems to recognize it. I'd like to
> decode the JSON array completely before passing it to JSONtoArray. If I can
> do that, I don't have to loop through all the array keys, decoding each one
> individually.
>
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