loads: OverflowError while decoding too big escaped Unicode character
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Description
pyjson5.loads(r'{\U11111111: 2}')
File src/_decoder.pyx:509, in pyjson5.pyjson5._decode_identifier_name()
File src/_decoder.pyx:113, in pyjson5.pyjson5._get_hex_character()
File src/_raise_decoder.pyx:39, in pyjson5.pyjson5._raise_expected_s()
OverflowError: %c arg not in range(0x110000)
Should raise a Json5DecoderException instead
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Reproduce the issue with the shown pyjson5.loads call, then inspect src/_decoder.pyx:509 and _get_hex_character at line 113. Trace how the oversized escaped Unicode value is handled, and confirm that the same input raises Json5DecoderException rather than OverflowError.
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- python
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- backend
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- Bug
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