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		nknighthb on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf] Look at the HTML. The "unicode variant" is rendered differently because the code tells the browser to render it differently, not because it's a different character. `<span style="font-size:125%"><span class="Unicode">\</span></span>`

chimeracoder on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

Ah, thanks. I was on my phone and didn't think to check the source.

EDIT: Actually, this explanation is enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding

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