Re: [Json] Encoding Schemes

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Carsten Bormann scripsit:

> Clearly, the text in section 3 does not work with the
> BOM-based CESs.  But you might also read the text in 6 as asking for
> UTF-16 CES and the text in 3 then excluding BOMs so the UTF-16 CES is
> implicitly big-endian.  So much effort for something so theoretical.)

Unfortunately, it isn't even clear that it means that.  It could simply
mean "UTF-16, either big-endian or little-endian".

I am always astonished when people hold up RFC 4627 as some kind of
masterpiece of standards writing.

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lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."