If you're processing anonymous messages and don't know where unicode will occur you might want something like this: https://play.golang.org/p/M-21sy_en5
On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 9:41:15 AM UTC-7, JohnGB wrote: > > Thanks Roger. That is a really elegant solution. > > On 26 December 2016 at 17:32, roger peppe <rogp...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On 26 December 2016 at 07:23, JohnGB <jgbe...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> > It *should* have a JSON body, but in this particular case I can't be >> sure >> > that it will, as I'm trying to log requests when there are errors, >> which are >> > quite often errors in the request. So although in some cases it is >> decoded >> > later in the handler chain, I need to be able to log the string in a >> human >> > readable form before any possible decoding. >> > >> > If it's unescaped as part of json.Unmarshal(), is there an exposed >> function >> > in the encoding/json package which only unescapes a string? I've tried >> > looking, but I can't find anything that I can call directly. >> >> If you've got a JSON string, then unmarshaling into a string should work. >> >> https://play.golang.org/p/AThEIUZnX4 >> >> > >> > On Sunday, 25 December 2016 06:14:22 UTC+1, Matt Harden wrote: >> >> >> >> If it has a JSON body, are you using encoding/json to parse / decode >> it? >> >> That will handle the unescaping for you. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 4:54 PM JohnGB <jgbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I have an application where I am processing a HTTP request with a JSON >> >>> body. However, the JSON in the body has been unicode escaped, so >> instead of >> >>> `wasn't`, I get `wasn\u0027t`. >> >>> >> >>> What is the simplest way to unescape this text back to utf8 encoded >> text. >> >>> i.e. convert `wasn\u0027t` to `wasn't`. Please note that I'm only >> using >> >>> this as an example, but I'd like all unicode escaped characters to be >> >>> converted to their utf8 equivalents. >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >>> "golang-nuts" group. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an >> >>> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "golang-nuts" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
