Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] JSON mailing list and BoF

["Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <[e-mail]>]

On 2/19/13 3:08 PM, "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>And furthermore, "foó" versus "\u0066\u006f\u00f3" (or
>"\u0066\u006f\u006f\u00b4"?).  I think most of us clearly think the
>former is better than the latter, but it does need to be called out.
>
>I also do think some level of discussion on unicode normalization, even
>if the result is "this is out-of-scope," needs to take place.

One of the things we should also consider adding to the scope of a
potential WG is a set of design guidelines for protocols that use JSON.
One of those guidelines might be to avoid using human-language text as the
keys in an object, for this and other reasons.

However, I immediately thought of a counter-example: if you wanted to
encode a translation dictionary, you might want to do this:

{
  "Hello": {
    "en-US": "Howdy"
  }
}

It might be awkward to do this instead:

[
  {
    "word": "Hello",
    "translations": {
      "en-US": "Howdy"
    }
  }
]

-- 
Joe Hildebrand