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Re: [apps-discuss] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6839 (4367)

Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org> Sat, 16 May 2015 18:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6839 (4367)
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On 15/05/2015 17:53, Tony Hansen wrote:
> There is one more constraint for a file written with utf-8 to use the
> encoding of 8bit: the lines are limited to 998 bytes in length (not
> counting the CRLF line terminators). See RFC 2045 for details.

I think that would be a problem for JSON - there's no way (I know of) to break 
long text strings over multiple lines, so that restriction would rule out very 
long string values.  So maybe "binary" is the right choice.

#g
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