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@@ -11,13 +11,11 @@ will be two variants available: generated by the ragel state machine compiler http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/ragel . -Both variants of the JSON generator escape all non-ASCII and control characters -with \uXXXX escape sequences, and support UTF-16 surrogate pairs in order to be -able to generate the whole range of unicode code points. This means that -generated JSON document is encoded as UTF-8 (because ASCII is a subset of -UTF-8) and at the same time avoids decoding problems for receiving endpoints, -that don't expect UTF-8 encoded texts. On the negative side this may lead to a -bit longer strings than necessarry. +Both variants of the JSON generator generate UTF-8 character sequences by +default. If an :ascii_only option with a true value is given, they escape all +non-ASCII and control characters with \uXXXX escape sequences, and support +UTF-16 surrogate pairs in order to be able to generate the whole range of +unicode code points. All strings, that are to be encoded as JSON strings, should be UTF-8 byte sequences on the Ruby side. To encode raw binary strings, that aren't UTF-8 |