[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40560: REST API: Unicode characters are escaped in the response
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Tue Apr 25 15:00:26 UTC 2017
#40560: REST API: Unicode characters are escaped in the response
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Reporter: rilwis | Owner:
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: REST API | Version: trunk
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Focuses:
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Comment (by subrataemfluence):
To my understanding this is reasonable enough! Specially when we deal with
characters like double quote ("), forward slash (/), single quote (') etc.
If such characters are not escaped they might give rise to unwanted
situation when parsing.
For example I have a post with the following content:
'''<p>It was raining when I reached the "Amritsar ISBT" at around 9:30am
</p>'''
When JSON-fied by WP REST API it becomes
{{{#!php
"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was raining when I reached the
“Amritsar ISBT” at around 9:30am...<\/p>"}
}}}
which is reasonable because unescaped double quotes will have wrong
interpretation to WP parser.
So I think it is OK to have unicode characters to get escaped upfront.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40560#comment:1>
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