encoding: add option to escape non-ascii characters in JSON...
encoding: add option to escape non-ascii characters in JSON
This is necessary for hgweb to embed JSON data in HTML. JSON data must be
able to be embedded in non-UTF-8 HTML page so long as the page encoding is
compatible with ASCII.
According to RFC 7159, non-BMP character is represented as UTF-16 surrogate
pair. This function first splits an input string into an array of UTF-16
code points.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159.html#section-7