Re: [Json] Encoding Schemes

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 18 June 2013 19:56 UTC

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Norbert Lindenberg scripsit:

> Do you mean JSON embedded in some other document format, or
> application/json?

Either.

> How do you align this statement with the current "JSON
> text SHALL be encoded in Unicode" in section 3

Like Alice, I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.  "Unicode"
is not the name of an encoding.

> and with the encoding
> considerations and the lack of a charset parameter in section 6?

If there's no charset parameter, there isn't one.  Otherwise, section 6
only explains what Content-Transfer-Encoding to use in various cases,
without saying that no other cases are supported.

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