JSON.stringify() and char code 128

Posted on Sat 29th, February 2020

• #1

MaBe

How should this be coded?

currency_symbol =  "€";
console.log(JSON.stringify(currency_symbol));
// "\u00E2\u0082\u00AC"

currency_symbol =  String.fromCharCode(128);
console.log(JSON.stringify(currency_symbol));
// "\u0080"

• #2

MaBe
Looks like 128: € is treated special, because 129 : 0xfc : ü works.
```
ue = "ü";
console.log(JSON.stringify(ue));
// "\u00FC"
```
• #3

Gordon

Yes, it's a hack to allow unicode on Espruino (where it isn't natively supported). The IDE detects unicode, does the conversion, and uploads pre-converted code.

I think the issue you have is that the Euro symbol isn't actually part of the 0-255 character range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign

I guess in an ideal world that hack in the IDE would be configurable - you could choose if you wanted UTF8 encoding, or ISO10646-1, or something else.

For now I'd manually specify it - either fromCharCode as you have done, or \x80

• #4

MaBe

Thanks, that is exactly what I am using now.

      ....
      currency_symbol: "\x80",
      ....

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