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Re: [I18ndir] [art] Just uploaded draft-bray-unichars-03

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Sat, 09 September 2023 23:09 UTC

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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:09:01 -0700
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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] [art] Just uploaded draft-bray-unichars-03
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On Sep 8, 2023 at 1:55:10 PM, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I do think you missed discussion of escape sequences, though. For example,
> you can create an absolutely infuriating sequence of surrogate characters
> in JSON while the document is correct UTF-8. This dual layering needs to be
> discussed for anyone that is trying to figure this stuff out. We're not
> writing for the people on this mailing list. It's for the people that show
> up later.
>

On consideration, I think you’re right.  The example “\uDEAD” might give
the impression that this is a legal way to sneak a surrogate into a text
field even when the specified character repertoire (using for example this
document) says you shouldn’t do that, so yeah, need to make that explicit.
Thanks.



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