Re: [Chicken-users] Why does the JSON egg map JSON structs to Scheme vectors instead of alists?

[Alan Post]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:39:52PM +0100, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> Vok Vojwo <address@hidden> writes:
> > I think the Medea egg intends to do it the right way. But it seems to be 
> > buggy.
> >
> > And it has a voracious appetite
> 
> It does indeed :-)
> 
> 
> > Medea fails to parse the data:
> >
> > (use medea)
> > (read-json json) ;; => #f
> 
> Thanks for the hint. I managed to bisect it down to a Unicode character
> in one of the strings ("’"). Looking at medea's test suite I found this:
> 
> ;; (test-read '#("Дҫ") "[\"Дҫ\"]") ; FIXME genturfahi needs utf8 support for 
> that to work
> 
> So thanks for the reminder, I should mention this limitation in medea's
> documentation. Alan, would it be possible to make genturfahi UTF-8
> aware?
> 

Yes.  I will accomplish it over the hackathon weekend.  My first
attempt didn't go well, though it was because I was having trouble
getting basic UTF-like things working in Chicken at all.  I actually
have some of the required support ready to be checked in here in my
local repository.

-Alan
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