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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 12 December 2014 01:38 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:37:55 -0600
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-10
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:04:18PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Paul Hoffman scripsit:
> 
> > >   JSON text sequences MUST use UTF-8 encoding; other encodings of JSON
> > >   (i.e., UTF-16 and UTF-32) MUST NOT be used.
> > 
> > That seems like a good clarifying addition as well.
> 
> I continue to think this is a bad idea.  In particular, you cannot claim

What is?

> that because a text sequence entity body is not valid UTF-8, that it is
> not a valid JSON text sequence; as I explained before, the JSON texts
> may be truncated or otherwise damaged such that they contain only part
> of a UTF-8-encoded character.

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

Nico
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