JSON itself allows putting sequences of escape characters in the string that don’t unescape to valid Unicode. That’s fine, because the strings aren’t required to represent any particular encoding: it’s up to a layer higher than JSON to be opinionated about that.
I wouldn’t want my shell’s pipeline buffers to reject data it doesn’t like, why should a JSON serializer?
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JSON itself allows putting sequences of escape characters in the string that don’t unescape to valid Unicode. That’s fine, because the strings aren’t required to represent any particular encoding: it’s up to a layer higher than JSON to be opinionated about that.I wouldn’t want my shell’s pipeline buffers to reject data it doesn’t like, why should a JSON serializer?