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Generates ASCII-only JSON with escaped non-ASCII chracters.
npm install ascii-json
var asciiJSON = require('ascii-json');
See if a string is all ASCII or not
asciiJSON.isAscii("this is all ASCII"); // true
asciiJSON.isAscii("this is not 에스키"); // false
Escape non-ASCII strings
console.log(asciiJSON.escapeNonAsciis('this is not 에스키'));
// output: this is not \uc5d0\uc2a4\ud0a4"
Stringify object with non-ASCII property value
troublemaker = {
ascii: "hello world",
nonascii: "안녕하세요"
};
asciiOnly = asciiJSON.stringify(troublemaker);
console.log(asciiOnly);
// output: {"ascii":"hello world","nonascii":"\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694"}
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Generates ASCII-only JSON with escaped non-ASCII chracters.
The npm package ascii-json receives a total of 422 weekly downloads. As such, ascii-json popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ascii-json demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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