https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 <p> Hi, I am having this problem with boost::property_tree::read_json since 1.59! My json tree looks like this (code attached): </p> <pre class="wiki">static std::string reduced("{\n \"pipename\": \"quantiser(decode_lut_string=&lt;verbatim&gt;\\u0000@\\u0000\200\\u0000&lt;\\/verbatim&gt;)\",\n \"raw\": {\n \"type\": \"t\",\n \"rank\": \"3\",\n \"shape\": {\n \"dim\": \"256\",\n \"dim\": \"128\",\n \"dim\": \"128\"\n }\n },\n \"encoded\": {\n \"bytes\": \"4194304\"\n }\n}\n",296); </pre><p> If you check, there is a section between &lt;verbatim&gt;..&lt;/verbatim&gt; that I'd like to parse as is. the read_json method however throws an exception saying that: </p> <pre class="wiki">&lt;unspecified file&gt;(4): invalid code sequence </pre><p> my guess is, that the characters quoted above are non-utf8 and hence property_tree throws. Is this a bug or a feature? </p> <p> if it is a feature, i.e. property_tree is meant to only yield utf8 encoded strings, how would I store an arbitrary string in the property tree? NB. the string above works with boost 1.58 and older! </p> <p> Best, P </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 Trac 1.4.3 steinbac@… Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:10:27 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 <ul> <li><strong>attachment</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">test_json_fails.cpp</span> </li> </ul> <p> example code that reproduces the problem (in reduced fashion) with boost 1.59 and newer, the original string that caused the problem is also contained </p> Ticket Peter Steinbach Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:14:04 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12787 <ul> <li><strong>attachment</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">test_json_fails.2.cpp</span> </li> </ul> <p> update to yield only the problematic string </p> Ticket steinbac@… Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:10:43 GMT