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Re: [jose] Beyond RFC 8785 (JSON Canonicalization Scheme)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 11 July 2020 07:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] Beyond RFC 8785 (JSON Canonicalization Scheme)
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On 2020-07-11, at 09:25, David Waite <david=40alkaline-solutions.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Printing the code points, that is an inline DEL character in the JSON stringified output.

Arguably, this is really a JSON problem and not a JCS one.

There are many “non-printables” in Unicode, and JSON chose to require escaping only U+0000 to U+001F (and \ and ").  U+007F to U+009F is not the only range of interest here, think U+2028 and U+2029, or even U+200D.

I think the idea of JSON as a (readable) “text” form only ever worked to the first approximation.

Grüße, Carsten

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