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Bug #538

JSONItem escapes ordinary Unicode characters when writing JSON

Status
Fixed
Fixed in
v26.6.6
Source discussion
https://forum.objo.dev/d/447-a-little-concerned-about-the-json-writing
Last updated
2026-06-25

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JSONItem.ToString() and JSONItem.ToFormattedString() currently emit ordinary non-ASCII string characters as Unicode escape sequences, for example Björn becomes Bj\u00F6rn. This is valid JSON, but it is surprising for users and makes generated UTF-8 JSON harder to read and compare. JSON output should preserve ordinary Unicode characters while still escaping characters that JSON syntax requires to be escaped.

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