TextDecode JSON array

[Trevor DeVore]

That is UTF-8. I've seen older versions of Ruby on Rails would use escape
sequences like that  in JSON responses.

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Trevor DeVore

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:22 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:
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>    {"UserID":48,"UserName":"Eduardo Ba\u00f1uls","UserLoginName":"ebanu"}
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> If I run textDecode(<string>,"UTF8") on it, I get it back unaltered.
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> Does anyone recognize the text encoding? It doesn't seem to be UTF8.
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> If I then run JSONToArray on it, I get a LC array and the name is
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>    Eduardo Bañuls
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> And when I run textDecode on *that* it comes out right:
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>    Eduardo Bañuls
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> So what's the first string? JSONtoArray seems to recognize it. I'd like
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> to decode the JSON array completely before passing it to JSONtoArray. If
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> I can do that, I don't have to loop through all the array keys, decoding
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> each one individually.
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