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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 13 March 2017 22:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On 13 Mar 2017, at 22:50, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> ...and add that if the number of octets is less than 4, it's UTF-8.

No.

(It’s not hard to get this right in a program, because you can write unit tests.
It is much harder to get this right in text.
Let’s NOT write this text.)

Grüße, Carsten

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