Using javascript objects with UTF-16 property names

Asked Feb 19 '13 at 19:29

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I'm calling a service that returns UTF-16 json data. My question is if the JSON object has UTF-16 strings as property names is there a simple way to reference these properties?

For example, here is how the response data looks like after calling JSON.stringify on it:

"{"C\u0000o\u0000n\u0000t\u0000e\u0000n\u0000t\u0000s\u0000":{ ...

In my code I'd like to do something like data['Contents']. Is there a simple way around this that avoids either hardcoding the strings with unicode escape sequences?

Update: changed to indicate strings are UTF-16.

Here's an example (Visual C++) of the call to generate the JSON output:

wchar_t* str = _T("Contents");
yajl_gen_string(g, (unsigned char*)str, wcslen(str) * sizeof(TCHAR));

edited Feb 19 '13 at 20:27

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That looks like UTF-16 LE, not UTF-8... – Jon Feb 19 '13 at 19:31
It actually looks like UTF-16 LE, but whatever encoded it assumed it was UTF-8 instead. Very wrong! – Evert Feb 19 '13 at 19:32
Does it just contain `\u0000`? Is this a complex structure? [aka Objects in Objects?] – epascarello Feb 19 '13 at 19:54
Thanks for the clarification. It could be UTF-16. The original strings from the server are wchar_t*. – PPC-Coder Feb 19 '13 at 19:59
`\NULL` characters lead to invalid strings in many JS engines. Could you show us the code that generated this? – Bergi Feb 19 '13 at 20:08
It's part of a large program so I'll try to put together a small test case. – PPC-Coder Feb 19 '13 at 20:16

Using javascript objects with UTF-16 property names

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