Documentation review (#5257)

* 📝 Fix documentation gaps for 3.13.0 release (todos 138-142)

- Todo 138: Add "Known issues" section to modules.md with compiler-specific troubleshooting (GCC redefinition, MSVC symbol export). Add pointer note to quality_assurance.md.
- Todo 139: Document CBOR/MessagePack half-precision float encoding for NaN/Infinity (0xF9/0xCA with exact byte sequences). Explain pre-3.13.0 double-precision bug mechanism without issue citations.
- Todo 140: Document CBOR negative-integer-overflow rejection (parse_error.112) for magnitudes exceeding int64_t range (already implemented in rev 1).
- Todo 141: Update version history in value.md and operator[].md with behavior-change details, removing issue citations per citation policy (prose is self-contained).
- Todo 142: Global sed replace of 3.12.x → 3.13.0 placeholder across all 20 documentation files.

Revision 2 incorporates feedback to reduce changelog-like issue citations. Only citations that add unique troubleshooting value are retained (#5103 for GCC workaround, #3970 for MSVC symbol export). "Known issues" section follows PR #5252's visual pattern (info admonition with bold-bullet format).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* 📝 Document integer type selection, type_name() invalid value, and std::optional get() fix

- number_handling.md: clarify that positive/negative integers select
  unsigned/signed storage based on the leading minus sign (todo 143).
- type_name.md: document the new "invalid" return value for corrupted
  JSON values (todo 145).
- get.md: note that get<std::optional<T>>() was unreachable in every
  configuration prior to 3.13.0 due to an internal macro-guard bug,
  unrelated to JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS's actual effect (todo 144).

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -66,7 +66,15 @@ see "binary" cells in the table above.
!!! info "NaN/infinity handling"
If NaN or Infinity are stored inside a JSON number, they are serialized properly. This behavior differs from the normal JSON serialization which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
`NaN`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` are serialized as a CBOR half-precision float (type 0xF9, 3 bytes total):
`NaN` as `0xF9 0x7E 0x00`, `Infinity` as `0xF9 0x7C 0x00`, and `-Infinity` as `0xF9 0xFC 0x00`. This behavior
differs from the normal JSON serialization which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
!!! note
Prior to version 3.13.0, NaN and Infinity were instead serialized as a CBOR double-precision float (type 0xFB,
9 bytes total), because the check used to select a smaller encoding compared magnitudes with NaN, which is
always `false` and caused the intended half-precision path to be skipped.
!!! info "Unused CBOR types"
@@ -160,6 +168,13 @@ The library maps CBOR types to JSON value types as follows:
- simple values (0xE0..0xF3, 0xF8)
- undefined (0xF7)
!!! warning "Negative integer overflow"
CBOR negative integers (major type 1) are decoded as `-1 - n`. If the encoded magnitude `n` is too large for the
result to fit into `number_integer_t` (`std::int64_t` by default), parsing fails with a
[`parse_error.112`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error112) exception rather than overflowing
silently.
!!! warning "Object keys"
CBOR allows map keys of any type, whereas JSON only allows strings as keys in object values. Therefore, CBOR maps with keys other than UTF-8 strings are rejected.