How to convert unicode string to JSON?

Question

I want to convert below unicode string to JSON Object.

var str = '{"method_title":"Bank. Transfer","instructions":"Account Name: Sriram Me Co.,Ltd.\r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n- Furnin Commercial Bank\r\nAccount: 111-111-111\r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n- LIKSA Bank\r\nAccount: 111-111-111r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nAfter you have made bank transfer, please kindly visit \"PAYMENT\" to submit your payment detail."}';

below is the approach that I have followed

var myEscapedJSONString = decodeURIComponent(str);
console.log(JSON.parse(myEscapedJSONString));

and I am getting the below error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token in JSON at position 82

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 26 '20 at 14:47

decodeURIComponent is out of business here.

To use JSON.parse, the format must be correct.

So here, you must first remove line breaks with something like .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"").

Then the next problem is "PAYMENT", double quote cannot appears here, so you can remove with .replace(/"PAYMENT"/g, 'PAYMENT');

const str = '{"method_title":"Bank. Transfer","instructions":"Account Name: Sriram Me Co.,Ltd.\r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n- Furnin Commercial Bank\r\nAccount: 111-111-111\r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n- LIKSA Bank\r\nAccount: 111-111-111r\n----------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nAfter you have made bank transfer, please kindly visit \"PAYMENT\" to submit your payment detail."}';

const cleaned = str
  .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, "")
  .replace(/"PAYMENT"/g, 'PAYMENT');

console.log(JSON.parse(cleaned));

How to convert unicode string to JSON?

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