Re: [Cbor] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8610 (6278)

Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> Sat, 05 September 2020 18:51 UTC

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Carsten Bormann wrote:

> The below is exactly what should never happen: having to encode
> detailed (and somewhat arcane) knowledge about a standard in the
> bowels of another, mostly unrelated standard. I think we hit the right
> balance  with VCHAR and SCHAR, we just forget to fix BCHAR.  But we
> can discuss that when we do the bis...

To be sure, it should not be necessary to specify this stuff in CBOR. This and other Unicode-specific rules should be part of the ABNF spec (Section B.1, "Core Rules") to go with all the ASCII-specific rules already there.

Ending the range of allowable characters at 10FFFD solves only a tiny part of the "exclude noncharacters" problem. If we don't want to solve the whole problem, then don't solve any of it: just end the range at 10FFFF and pretend we don't know about noncharacters.

For that matter, even the value 10FFFD (or 10FFFF) can be considered detailed (and somewhat arcane) knowledge about Unicode. Removing that is left as an exercise.

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