Re: [Gen-art] [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-09

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:20:25PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Patrik Fältström scripsit:
> > This implies the whole thing is a UTF-8 encoded text that is to be
> > parsed like this:
> 
> No, this is a misunderstanding.  There is no requirement that the sequence
> *as a whole* is well-formed UTF-8 text.  For example, if the first JSON
> text is written only in part for whatever reason (system crash, etc.) to
> a log file, the next process can write a 0x1E byte and carry on.

Correct.  But we're splitting hairs: arbitrary octet strings (but for
0x1E) can be attempted to be parsed, though only those that are valid
JSON texts encoded in UTF-8 should be accepted.

The encoder, of course, must produce UTF-8.

Nico
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