in reply to Handling special characters in JSON

Well, if nobody else will RTFM, I will: JSON::XS. :)

perl -MJSON::XS -del # vvvvvvvv DB<1> x JSON::XS->new()->ascii(1)->encode(["\x{00e9}"]) 0 '["\\u00e9"]' # ^^^^^^^^

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Re^2: Handling special characters in JSON (TFM)
by ysth (Canon) on Dec 16, 2010 at 03:47 UTC
    That assumes a perl data structure as the source, which wasn't clearly (to me) the case. Anyway, I do:
    JSON::to_json( ["\x{00e9}"], { 'ascii' => 1 } )
    (with JSON using JSON::XS).
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      That assumes a perl data structure as the source, which wasn't clearly (to me) the case.

      Oh. Well, if only there was a way to take JSON and turn it into a Perl data structure... q-:

      But "I wrote an ajax service in perl" sure sounds to me like something that is likely to be generating JSON from Perl data structures. :)

      - tye