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Re: [Json] Encoding detection

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Sun, 17 November 2013 20:01 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:00:48 +0100
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Cc: Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com>, JSON WG <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Encoding detection
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* Paul Hoffman wrote:
>On Nov 17, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> wrote:
>
>> While I'm here, Joe mentioned "implementable".  From an implementer's
>> perspective the table I presented earlier might be better presented in the
>> following order:
>> 
>>  00 00 -- --  UTF-32BE
>>  00 xx -- --  UTF-16BE
>>  xx xx -- --  UTF-8
>>  xx 00 xx --  UTF-16LE
>>  xx 00 00 xx  UTF-16LE
>>  xx 00 00 00  UTF-32LE
>> 
>> Or is that taking the fun out of it for the implementer?!
>
>I'm not sure that is the right order. Wouldn't that make UTF-16LE be 
>mistaken for UTF-8? It seems to me that the UTF-8 rule has to be last 
>because it is more general than any of the ones above it.

No, `xx` stands for a non-zero byte.
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