Hello I am wondering why this line doesn't work:
JSON.parse({"a":"\u00A9"})Unicode escaping is syntactically legal in js according to this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Lexical_grammar#String_literals
What is the problem and how can I safely parse text with JSON.parse
{"a":"\u00A9"} is a JavaScript object literal.
JSON.parse expects to be passed a string so it is implicitly converted to a string ("[object Object]").
The [ is fine, because a JSON text can start with an array.
The o is then an error because it isn't allowed there.
A literal copyright symbol (remember that \u00A9 inside a JavaScript string literal will be consumed by the JS parser before it gets to the JSON parser) or the unicode escape sequence would be fine.
console.log(JSON.parse('{"a":"\u00A9"}')); console.log(JSON.parse('{"a":"\\u00A9"}'));Note that creating a string literal in JS source code that contains JSON and then parsing it is a terrible idea. You have to deal with nested levels of escaping, and it is inefficient.
If you have an object: use the object.
var data = {"a":"\u00A9"}; console.log(data.a);
