“<” character in JSON data is serialized to \u003c

Question

I have a JSON object where the value of one element is a string. In this string there are the characters \"\". I take this entire JSON object and i

Answer 1

The characters are being encoded "properly"!¹ Use a working JSON library to correctly access the JSON data - it is a valid JSON encoding.

Escaping these characters prevents HTML injection via JSON - and makes the JSON XML-friendly. That is, even if the JSON is emited directly into JavaScript (as is done fairly often as JSON is a valid² subset of JavaScript), it cannot be used to terminate the