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Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 24 June 2013 23:35 UTC

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Tim Bray scripsit:

> In general I’d support this, with one nit: s/that are not Unicode
> characters/that can never be Unicode characters/ (just to make it clear
> we’re not talking about unassigned code points, which don't seem to
> distress anyone).

Well, that excludes not only surrogate code points, which are the really
dangerous ones (because they have no standard representation) but non-character
code points as well, which shouldn't be interchanged but aren't actually
dangerous.  I don't know if you mean to do that or not.

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