Json stringify doesn't handle unicode characters

[pdupless]

Json stringify in the absence of the json object doesn't escape Unicode characters.

Unicode characters can be introduced when copying text into textarea fields from common applications such as Microsoft Outlook.

The addition of the code below to the declaration of the escapeString function would resolve the issue.

.replace(/[\u007f-\uffff]/g, function(c) { return '
u' + ('0000' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).slice(-4); });

[bill]

Why do you think it should escape non-ascii characters?

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[bill]

FYI, AFAIK the only character that needs to be escaped is the double quote. It sounds like you had an encoding problem in your app (transferring non-ascii characters to the browsers, or storing non-ascii characters in your database, etc.) and you wanted to use Json stringify to work around the problem.