diff --git a/loadjson.m b/loadjson.m
index 7f9a796..68e995d 100644
--- a/loadjson.m
+++ b/loadjson.m
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@
                arraystr=regexprep(arraystr,'\"','''');
            end
            object=eval(arraystr);
+           if(iscell(object))
+               object=cellfun(@unescapejsonstring,object,'UniformOutput',false);
+           end
            pos=endpos;
         catch
          while 1
@@ -510,8 +513,11 @@ function error_pos(msg, inStr)
 
 function newstr=unescapejsonstring(str)
 newstr=str;
+if(~ischar(str))
+    return;
+end
 escapechars={'\\','\"','\/','\a','\b','\f','\n','\r','\t','\v'};
 for i=1:length(escapechars);
     newstr=regexprep(newstr,regexprep(escapechars{i},'\\','\\\\'), escapechars{i});
 end
-newstr=regexprep(newstr,'\\\\(u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}[^0-9a-fA-F]*)','\\$1');
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+newstr=regexprep(newstr,'\\u([0-9A-Fa-f]{4})', '${char(base2dec($1,16))}');
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