single quote in a string is incorrectly escaped about edn-java HOT 3 CLOSED

Looks like a bug relative to the behavior of clojure.core/pr. Also the Clojure reader rejects it.

Seems an obvious improvement to have edn-java no longer print this way.

What about reading though? Should it continue to accept "'", or conform to clojure's behavior (a breaking change)?

Why things ended up this way:

edn-format/edn says:
Strings are enclosed in "double quotes". May span multiple lines. Standard C/Java escape characters \t \r \n are supported.

The JLS considers "'" valid:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-3.html#jls-3.10.6

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On 03.06.2013, at 18:11, Meikel Brandmeyer [email protected] wrote:

Printing a string containing single quotes will incorrectly escape these quotes with a backslash. In a groovy shell:

System.out.withWriter("UTF-8") { us.bspm.edn.printer.Printers.newPrinter(it).printValue("a 'b' c") }
"a 'b' c">
Version affected: 0.4.0

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Well, the set of escape characters is listed, but then \a and \b are missing. I don't remember \' being a C escape character though. But I don't know the standard. File a bug against edn for clarification?

Reading can probably continue to accept it. Normally it won't be produced (assuming a "correct" producer with "correct" meaning pr alike). So the chance to encounter this is mostly historic edn-java produced data. On the other hand that would mean a slight glitch in handling corrupt input.

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Misbehaving printer is fixed in ceb7be0 and will be included in release 0.4.1.

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