From 874a609959d9db428b0aaa2be8441cc5f286e4ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Raghavan <arun@asymptotic.io>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:56:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] json: Allow non-ASCII UTF-8 strings

Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1398
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/813>
---
 src/pulsecore/json.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pulsecore/json.c b/src/pulsecore/json.c
index e2010e9fc..51bbea9ae 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/json.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/json.c
@@ -148,9 +148,10 @@ static const char* parse_string(const char *str, pa_json_object *obj) {
 
     while (*str && *str != '"') {
         if (*str != '\\') {
-            /* We only accept ASCII printable characters. */
-            if (*str < 0x20 || *str > 0x7E) {
-                pa_log("Invalid non-ASCII character: 0x%x", (unsigned int) *str);
+            /* JSON specifies that ASCII control characters 0x00 through 0x1F
+             * must not appear in the string. */
+            if (*str < 0x20) {
+                pa_log("Invalid ASCII character: 0x%x", (unsigned int) *str);
                 goto error;
             }