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Re: [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-10

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 12 December 2014 01:41 UTC

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Nico Williams scripsit:

> RS cannot accidentally result from truncating a multi-byte UTF-8
> encoded codepoint.

I realize that.  But because such truncations are possible, we can't
assert that a well-formed JSON text sequence is necessarily well-formed
UTF-8 as a whole.

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