From 77a8dcab03c1bf8efa5cafaa2d9dc0a9f7a3dcf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Gerrand Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:57:41 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] encoding/json: document coercion of invalid UTF-8 characters Fixes #8342. LGTM=iant R=golang-codereviews, iant CC=golang-codereviews https://golang.org/cl/122180043 --- src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go b/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go index 741ddd89cb..5341a3a01b 100644 --- a/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go +++ b/src/pkg/encoding/json/encode.go @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ import ( // // Floating point, integer, and Number values encode as JSON numbers. // -// String values encode as JSON strings. InvalidUTF8Error will be returned -// if an invalid UTF-8 sequence is encountered. +// String values encode as JSON strings coerced to valid UTF-8, +// replacing invalid bytes with the Unicode replacement rune. // The angle brackets "<" and ">" are escaped to "\u003c" and "\u003e" // to keep some browsers from misinterpreting JSON output as HTML. // Ampersand "&" is also escaped to "\u0026" for the same reason. -- 2.48.1