Re: Left and Right Quotation Marks

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I ran it through a JSON validator and it didn't choke at all.  Not sure if
it was looking for invalid characters or not, though.

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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 9:41 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> According to the validators it is not valid JSON - nothing to do with
> EBCDIC.
>
> I've had similar issues in the past where someone copied a CSV document
> using MS Word with the "smart quotes" ( or whatever the stupid thing is )
> turned on and then sent out the resulting file saved as text.
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
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>
> > On May 17, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Parsing some JSON using YAJL we ran into an issue where some data had
> > those ASCII left and right quotation marks mainly that we see in word
> docs.
> > “text in left and right quotes”
> >
> > These of course didn't translate.  I'm thinking maybe they don't really
> > even exist in EBCDIC on the IBM i?
> >
> > How are these handled normally?  XML, JSON, whatever unicode or ascii
> data
> > is coming into the system?