JSON Special Characters: Escaping Quotes, Backslashes, and Unicode
Escaping special characters in JSON: quotes, backslashes, forward slashes, control characters, and Unicode escape sequences with examples.
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JSON Special Characters: Escaping Quotes, Backslashes, and Unicode Strings in JSON can contain almost any character. But a handful of characters have special meaning inside a JSON string and must be escaped with a backslash before the parser will accept them. Get the escaping wrong and you get a parse error. Get it right and JSON can represent any text in any human language. The Complete Escape Table These are the only valid escape sequences in a JSON string: | Escape | Meaning | |--------|---------| | | Double quote | | | Backslash | | | Forward slash (optional) | | | Backspace | | | Form feed | | | Newline (line feed) | | | Carriage return | | | Horizontal tab | | | Unicode code point (4 hex digits) | Any other character after a backslash is invalid. --- Escaping Double Quotes The most…
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