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Re: [Json] Encoding Schemes

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 18 June 2013 18:39 UTC

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Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) scripsit:

> "When serialized to an octet stream, JSON text SHALL be encoded in one of
> the following Unicode encoding schemes: UTF-8,  UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE,
> UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.  The default and RECOMMENDED encoding is UTF-8.

Oh no, that SHALL will not fly.  Any encoding (which means "encoding
scheme" in a media-type context) can be used to represent JSON.
Including an EBCDIC variant.

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