From ec1857fcdd8d014e703ac88fde7fda8e3e9a0e33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abir EL FEKI <31621762+abirEF@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:34:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix bug in properly handling characters for JSON parsing #268

---
 front-end/source/kernel/runtime/xdash-runtime-main.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/front-end/source/kernel/runtime/xdash-runtime-main.js b/front-end/source/kernel/runtime/xdash-runtime-main.js
index 72a1619f..e718820c 100644
--- a/front-end/source/kernel/runtime/xdash-runtime-main.js
+++ b/front-end/source/kernel/runtime/xdash-runtime-main.js
@@ -143,7 +143,10 @@ var RuntimeDashboard = (function () {
   }
 
   async function loadDashboard(jsonContent, exportOptions) {
-    var decodedData = $('<textarea />').html(JSON.stringify(jsonContent.data)).text(); // MBG : find a better method
+    let decodedData = JSON.stringify(jsonContent.data); // fix bug in properly handling characters for JSON parsing
+    decodedData = decodedData.replace(/[\u007F-\uFFFF]/g, function (chr) {
+      return '\\u' + ('0000' + chr.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).substr(-4);
+    });
     var data_json = '';
     try {
       data_json = JSON.parse(decodedData);