`msstore submission get` outputs invalid JSON for non-Latin listings

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the msstore submission get command and reproduce the issue with a listing containing Cyrillic characters such as sr-cyrl-rs. Verify that its output parses with PowerShell ConvertFrom-Json and can be piped into submission updateMetadata, including keywords and descriptions with backslashes and Unicode characters.

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Description

msstore submission get produces invalid JSON when the app has listings with Cyrillic characters (e.g. sr-cyrl-rs).

The output contains:

  • Bare backslashes not followed by valid JSON escape characters (e.g. in Keywords)
  • Invalid Unicode escape sequences such as \u 04 (space between \u and the hex digits)

This causes ConvertFrom-Json to fail with:

Bad JSON escape sequence: \. Path 'Listings.sr-cyrl-rs.BaseListing.Keywords[3]'
Invalid Unicode escape sequence: \u 04. Path 'Listings.sr-cyrl-rs.BaseListing.Description'

Making it impossible to pipe submission get into submission updateMetadata as documented.

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