TextDecode JSON array

[J. Landman Gay]

So LC should recognize it without alteration I'd assume, but it doesn't. 
Probably the leading "\u"? I'm still not sure how to handle that.

On 1/21/17 9:29 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> 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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