Thanks. I actually was using jsonImport() with these strings
successfully (no wrapper required) but it has a bug on Android that
makes it unuseable. That's what caused the problem in the first place,
because jsonToArray() doesn't deal with escape sequences.
So I went ahead and wrote a decoder for escaped sequences that works,
but found out I still can't use it. If I replace the escapes before
using jsonToArray(), jsonToArray throws an error; it can't deal with the
UTF16 strings. And I can't run my decoder through the keys of the
converted array after jsonToArray is finished, because they are already
munged into garbage characters by then.
So I'm stuck, I don't see any way to deal with these. I'll put in a bug
report about jsonImport() but it will probably be a while before it gets
fixed.
I hope someone else has an idea.
On 3/14/17 7:13 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote:
Jacque wrote:
I'm dealing with non-English languages, and JSON data retrieved from a
database comes in with unicode escape sequences like this: Eduardo
Ba\u00f1uls.
I need to translate those. I can do it by replacing the "\u" with "0x"
and then using numToCodepoint() to get the UTF16 character. But there
could be many of these in the same string, so I'm looking for a one-shot
command that might just do them all.
JSONImport does it.
If the escaped string is not in JSON format this function will wrap it in JSON
then let JSONImport do its thing.
put deEscape("Eduardo Ba\u00f1uls")
function deEscape pEscapedText
put "{'1':'**dummy**'}" into temp
replace "**dummy**" with pEscapedText in temp
replace "'" with quote in temp
put JSONImport(temp)into pArray
return pArray[1]
end deEscape
Roundabout but does the trick.
Jim Lambert
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