consider skipping unusual whitespace characters while parsing

Question

consider skipping unusual whitespace characters while parsing

michallepicki opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Parser.parse!/2 was crashing for me despite the fact that the JSON I fetched from external service looked completely fine. It turns out that the JSON started with a zero-width non-breaking space (U+FEFF).

Shall we change this line to pattern match all whitespace characters (a list is available at wikipedia) instead of only '\s\n\t\r' ? How much it will hurt the performance?

I understand this case may be unusual, but apparently these things may happen.

JSX handles this JSON just fine.

Michał Łępicki · Answer 1 · Tue Sep 05 2017 15:27:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Any thoughts on that? Shall I submit a PR? Should this be configurable in any way?