Re: [apps-discuss] draft-pbryan-zyp-json-pointer: name syntax for non-ASCII

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Mon, 21 November 2011 19:37 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:37:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-pbryan-zyp-json-pointer: name syntax for non-ASCII
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* Paul C. Bryan wrote:
>RFC 3986 prescribes encoding characters in UTF-8 and percent-encoding
>non-unreserved characters. Furthermore, JSON by definition uses Unicode
>for all string values (most often encoding in UTF-8). Do these not
>address the issue?

RFC 3986 only defines the character encoding for the host component, in
other components it just defines that %C3 refers to the octet 0xC3. So,
if you want that %C3%B6 refers to an "ö", then you have to define that.
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