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

Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> Wed, 19 April 2017 09:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On 19/04/2017 08:36, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> However, if we want something like
>
>      "U+0100" (where U+0100 is the UTF form of the character, not ASCII)
>
> I suggest to use the facility that the RFC Editor and others have worked
> long and hard now, and use the actual character:
>
> "Ā" (string with the single character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> (U+0100))


I'd missed the memo on non-ASCII characters in RFCs.  This sounds great 
to me.

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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