This is a implementation of the JSON specification according to RFC 4627. You can think of it as a low fat alternative to XML, if you want to store data to disk or transmit it over a network rather than use a verbose markup language. The JSON generator escapes all non-ASCII an control characters with \uXXXX escape sequences and supports UTF-16 surrogate pairs in order to be able to generate the whole range of Unicode code points. This means that generated JSON text is encoded as UTF-8 (because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8) and at the same time avoids decoding problems for receiving endpoints that don't expect UTF-8 encoded texts. This package is fast C extension variant which is in parts implemented in C and comes with its own Unicode conversion functions and a parser generated by the Ragel State Machine Compiler.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.