Issue #13217 has been updated by Martin Drst.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

RFC 7159 defines what's allowed as spaces between data. Please see the 'ws' production at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-2, which lists only the following four:

```
  ws = *(
              %x20 /              ; Space
              %x09 /              ; Horizontal tab
              %x0A /              ; Line feed or New line
              %x0D )              ; Carriage return
```

You can use other (Unicode) spaces within strings, but not between data. That's quite standard for formats such as JSON, XML, HTML,..., nothing surprising there.

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Bug #13217: JSON.parse() chokes on the UTF-8 character EM SPACE (U+2003, e2 80 83)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13217#change-62993

* Author: 7 stud
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.4.0, 2.3.0, 2.2.1, 1.9.3-p551
* Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN
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### Steps to reproduce

No error here:

```
require 'json'

json = %Q{
  ["a", "b"]
}

obj = JSON.parse(json)
```

But there is a UTF-8 space character called `EM SPACE`  (U+2003, e2 80 83), which looks like a regular ascii space, and it causes a parse error:

```
require 'json'

json = %Q{
  ["a",\u2003"b"]
}

obj = JSON.parse(json)

```

Here's the error 

```
/Users/7stud/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.0/lib/ruby/2.4.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse': 409: unexpected token at '"b"] (JSON::ParserError)
'
	from /Users/7stud/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.0/lib/ruby/2.4.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse'
	from 1.rb:7:in `<main>'
```

### Expected behavior
Because UTF-8 characters are supposed to be valid in json, I expected the EM SPACE not to cause a parse error.  ```jsonlint.com``` reports the json with the ```EM SPACE``` to be valid, yet ruby can't parse it.

### Actual behavior
I get this error:

```
/Users/7stud/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.0/lib/ruby/2.4.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse': 409: unexpected token at '"b"] (JSON::ParserError)
'
	from /Users/7stud/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.0/lib/ruby/2.4.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse'
	from 1.rb:7:in `<main>'
```


**Ruby version**:
```
~/ruby_programs$ ruby --version
ruby 2.4.0p0 (2016-12-24 revision 57164) [x86_64-darwin14]
```

However, I get the same error in all of the following rubies:

   ruby-1.9.3-p551 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.2.1 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.3.0 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.4.0 [ x86_64 ]



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