Merge pull request #299 from dsnz/develop_v3

alias without {} for json string; updated README and version

Merge pull request #298 from dsnz/develop_v3

update README

Merge pull request #276 from dsnz/master

update release version

Merge pull request #267 from dsnz/develop_v3

fix for get_ functions when no field value to return

Merge pull request #266 from dsnz/master

fix for get_ functions when no field value to return

Merge pull request #263 from dsnz/develop_v3

release 3.6.0

Merge pull request #250 from dsnz/develop_v3

review and homogenization of clob code with v2 (#239 4 byte Unicode chars)

Merge pull request #248 from dsnz/master

README for release 2.5.3

Merge pull request #235 from dsnz/develop_v3

update README (!)

Merge pull request #218 from dsnz/develop_v3

update README