TextDecode JSON array

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jan 21 22:35:50 EST 2017


On 1/21/17 9:22 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 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.
>

Hm. Google says it's C/C++/Java encoding. Not sure what to do with that.

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