understanding json data

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Hello fellow programmers. I got an URL and im supposed to fetch JSON data which is hosted on that URL. As im totally new to JSON i only can recognize some of the data but there's some "weird" characters in the JSON data that i'd like to know about. I used an online "JSON viewer" to see the data from URL i got and it looks like this:

{ "Content": "\u000d\u000a\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Current Leaders\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Sales in 000's\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Alice\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u00091,000\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Bill\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009975\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Curt\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009967\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Deborah\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009965\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009Elsa\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009964\u000d\u000a\u0009\u0009\u000d\u000a\u0009\u000d\u000a\u000d\u000a\u000d\u000a\u0009 \u000d\u000a", "DateChanged": "\/Date(1330709756123+0100)\/", "InfoContentID": 150, "Topic": "INCENTIVE LEADER BOARD" }

The question is, what are all those u000d\u0009 What doest that mean? It's all weird. Thanks in advance.

That's Unicode and a lot of those characters you have are control chars such as carriage return, line feed and tab. — Widor
– Widor, Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:15
Then if that's unicode i am so screwed because im supposed to to get that data and show it in one of my blackberry application. I dont know if i have to use WebServices to get the data. Obviously it's not JSON because as far as i know JSON URLs end with .json. Any ideas on what technology to use to get the data? Thanks — madcoderz
– madcoderz, Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 19:41

Hans Z · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-17 14:13:25Z

Those are unicode characters \u000d is the carriage return character (\r), \u000a is new line (\n), \u0009 is the tab character (\t). Basically it's all whitespace.

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