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Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 25 June 2013 12:48 UTC

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Carsten Bormann scripsit:

> That statement *combines* with the ABNF.  
> The ABNF limits the representations, the first limits the strings themselves.

That would fly if the RFC didn't REQUIRE parsers to "accept all texts
that conform to the JSON grammar".  That means that

	["X"]

where X is an unpaired surrogate code point, is acceptable.

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