JSON Special Characters: Escaping 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. --- Why Escaping Is Necessary JSON strings are surrounded by double quote characters. If the string content itself contains a double quote, the parser needs a way to distinguish "this quote is part of the string" from "this quote ends the string." The backslash escape is that signal. Similarly, the backslash is the escape character itself. If you want a literal backslash in the string, you must escape it so the parser…
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