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Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 04:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:30:10PM -0700, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Doesn't this argument miss the escaping syntax that JSON requires?
> 
> 'To escape an extended character that is not in the Basic Multilingual
> Plane, the character is represented as a 12-character sequence, encoding
> the UTF-16 surrogate pair.  So, for example, a string containing only the G
> clef character (U+1D11E) may be represented as "\uD834\uDD1E".'

Ah, good point.  Objection withdrawn.

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