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Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 10 May 2017 13:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On May 10, 2017, at 15:08, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
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> I believe we should have separate names for JSON represented as a sequence of characters (such as in a string variable in a programming language) and for a JSON-shaped octet sequence inside a "application/json"-typed (HTTP) message. For the latter, enforcing UTF-8 IMHO is attractive.

Do we do this a lot for other media types?
(Just wondering whether there are good parallels to draw.)

Ceterum censeo: the really interesting third level that we should be talking about is the (generic) data model.
(But that is not possible for this round of making the specification into Internet Standard.)

Grüße, Carsten

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