Don't escape front slash, it is not required for json

[tedpearson]

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[cburroughs]

I think escaping is actually technically correct http://www.json.org/string.gif

[tea-dragon]

Nope. It is optional. That picture is showing both options -- 'front slash' is also covered under the "any unicode character except [... etc]" block. The solidus is not considered a control character.

[tedpearson]

"A string begins and ends with
quotation marks. All Unicode characters may be placed within the
quotation marks except for the characters that must be escaped:
quotation mark, reverse solidus, and the control characters (U+0000
through U+001F).

Any character may be escaped." http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt

Some argument about whether escaped slash is correct: ultrajson/ultrajson#110

The browser JSON.stringify() method doesn't escape front slashes.