Function decodeUnicodeEscape

escape.go:115–155

(in []byte)

}

func decodeUnicodeEscape(in []byte) (rune, int) {
	if r, ok := decodeSingleUnicodeEscape(in); !ok {
		// Invalid Unicode escape
		return utf8.RuneError, -1
	} else if !isUTF16EncodedRune(r) {
		// Valid Unicode escape in Basic Multilingual Plane.
		// Note: a single \uXXXX escape produces r in [0, 0xFFFF], so r is always
		// within the BMP. The former r <= basicMultilingualPlaneOffset guard was
		// tautological and has been removed — the real discriminator is whether r
		// falls in the UTF-16 surrogate range.
		return r, 6
	} else if r >= lowSurrogateOffset {
		// Lone low surrogate (0xDC00-0xDFFF) with no preceding high surrogate.
		// Per RFC 8259/WHATWG a lone surrogate in a JSON string is malformed;
		// match encoding/json by substituting U+FFFD and consuming only the 6
		// bytes of this escape.
		return utf8.RuneError, 6
	} else if len(in) < 8 || in[6] != '\\' || in[7] != 'u' {
		// Lone high surrogate (0xD800-0xDBFF): the high-surrogate escape is not
		// followed by a "\u" low-surrogate escape. decodeSingleUnicodeEscape
		// assumes the \u prefix and reads hex at fixed offsets, so without this
		// guard it would misread whatever bytes follow (e.g. the literal "A7FA"
		// after "\uDB29") as a low surrogate and synthesize a bogus code point
		// (DEFECT-260727-SNGT). Substitute U+FFFD and consume only the 6 bytes
		// of the high surrogate, matching encoding/json.
		return utf8.RuneError, 6
	} else if r2, ok := decodeSingleUnicodeEscape(in[6:]); !ok {
		// A "\u" follows the high surrogate but the low-surrogate escape is
		// itself malformed (truncated / bad hex) — the whole escape is broken.
		return utf8.RuneError, -1
	} else if r2 < lowSurrogateOffset || r2 > basicMultilingualPlaneReservedOffset {
		// The following "\uXXXX" is not a valid low surrogate (0xDC00-0xDFFF):
		// e.g. a BMP codepoint or another high surrogate. Treat the first escape
		// as a lone high surrogate → U+FFFD, consuming 6 bytes; the following
		// escape is reprocessed by the caller.
		return utf8.RuneError, 6
	} else {
		// Valid UTF16 surrogate pair
		return combineUTF16Surrogates(r, r2), 12
	}
}

// backslashCharEscapeTable: when '\X' is found for some byte X, it is to be replaced with backslashCharEscapeTable[X]
var backslashCharEscapeTable = [...]byte{