Escaped forward slash in JSON throws exception

[davecraig]

If in my Android app I generate JSON from a JSONObject then forward slashes are always escaped, and double quotes are used as per the JSON spec e.g.

{
  "country": "Alba \/ Scotland",
  "house_number": "48",
  "city": "Glasgow",
  "road": "Station Road",
  "neighbourhood": "Milngavie",
  "country_code": "GB",
  "postcode": "G62 8AB",
  "county": "East Dunbartonshire",
  "state": "Scotland"
}

This throws an exception when passing it into AndroidAddressFormatter format:

Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.snakeyaml.error.MarkedYAMLException: while scanning a double-quoted scalar
in 'reader', line 1, column 12:
{"country":"Alba \/ Scotland","house_number ... 
            ^
found unknown escape character /(47)
in 'reader', line 1, column 19:
{"country":"Alba \/ Scotland","house_number":"48", ...
                  ^

If I replace the "\/" with "/" then there's no issue, so I have a workaround for now, but it's not clear to me how the JSON->YAML parsing is designed to work in this case.