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JSONDecoder(strict=False) allows them.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Invalid control character {0!r} at\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Doc/library/json.rst (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): If strict is false (True is the default), control characters are allowed inside strings.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Lib/json/decoder.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Strict scanning raises 'Invalid control character {0!r} at'; C scanner uses 'Invalid control character at'.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Modules/_json.c (github_source, 2026-09-27, documented_behavior): C scanner raises 'Invalid control character at' (line 398); the pure-Python decoder uses 'Invalid control character {0!r} at'.\n\nSearch phrasings: json Invalid control character at llm output newline; 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