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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 01:12 UTC

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Manger, James scripsit:

> How about:
> 
>   "A JSON text sequence consists of any number of JSON texts,
>    each prefixed by a Record Separator (U+001E) character, and
>    each suffixed by an End of Line (U+000A) character. It is
>    UTF-8 encoded."
> 
> Say "Information Separator Two (U+001E)" if you really want to be pure.

The trouble with that is that U+001E has no official Unicode name or
function; those come from ISO 6429, which is incorporated (in relevant
part) into US-ASCII, which is described in RFC 20.

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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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