to_string does not properly dump real JSON.

[Rapptz]

Since it doesn't dump real JSON, it's probably not a good way to dump JSON. So it should probably be removed or renamed for a better API.

The reason it doesn't dump real JSON is because when dumping strings, it ignores the \uxxxx literals and even the escape sequences which makes it wrong.

It might be worth looking into how Python does JSON dumping. This allows it to be relevant to issue #5.

[ThePhD]

I don't know what you mean by "it ignores the \uxxxx" literaals. The actual "\\u0041" literal is changed?

[Rapptz]

to_string doesn't know about escape sequences at all. So std::string x("\"\u0041\"") would not turn into that in to_string with json. It'd turn into ""<char at 0x41>"" instead of "\"\u0041\"".

[Rapptz]

Basically fixed in 10f922c.