encoding/json: Fixed the comment specifying Marshal behavior for maps.

The comment previously was reversed in sense (it appeared to be
describing unmarshaling). I've fixed that, and added the caveat that map
keys are subject to UTF-8 coercion like other strings.

Change-Id: Id08082aa71401a6e7530a42f979fbb50bd1f4e6a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5221
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/encoding/json/encode.go b/src/encoding/json/encode.go
index e59a0b3bbfd0a9d49d607fee91bd15739ad9b59d..4db9f35e6918964d1bcb478b0c5418a868c560fd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/encoding/json/encode.go
+++ b/src/encoding/json/encode.go
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ import (
 // a JSON tag of "-".
 //
 // Map values encode as JSON objects.
-// The map's key type must be string; the object keys are used directly
-// as map keys.
+// The map's key type must be string; the map keys are used as JSON object
+// keys, subject to the UTF-8 coercion described for string values above.
 //
 // Pointer values encode as the value pointed to.
 // A nil pointer encodes as the null JSON object.