$.parseJSON fails for valid json string if it has newlines

[theom3ga@…]

I think I've found a problem in jQuery's parseJSON function.

Suppose I have the following JSON:

    {
        "hello": "hi\nlittle boy?"
    }

If you check it using ​JSONlint you can see it's valid JSON. However, if you try the following, you get an error message:

$(function(){
    try{
        $.parseJSON('{ "hello": "hi\nlittle boy?" }');
    } catch (exception) {
        alert(exception.message);
    }    
});​

The ​Official JSON Website says that the "\n" character is a valid character inside a JSON string.

[theom3ga@…]

I've uploaded a test to ​jsFiddle.

[gibson042]

​http://json.org/ specifies that strings cannot contain unescaped control characters like newline. If you're specifying data like that, you must escape the backslash so the JSON parser sees it instead of the newline: ​http://jsfiddle.net/m8t89/3/ .