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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 13 June 2013 21:06 UTC

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 18:55, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>
>> So... two documents, yes.  Abstract syntax, no.

To be fair "JSON in EBCDIC vs. JSON in UTF-8" are not really
comparable to "ASN.1 w/ DER vs. ASN.1 w/ PER -- a difference of
degree, though not of kind.  :)

> +1
>
> The JSON data interchange format has no use if it is floating in the air.
> It must have both feet firmly on the ground, in concrete syntax, in bits and bytes.
> (And one of the feet can be RFC 3629.)
>
> RFC4627 managed to do this reasonably well, why should it suddenly be hard?

It isn't.  I think the talk of EBCDIC was illustrative or best taken
as such.  Move along, nothing to see here :)

More seriously, we have to iron out the details of what strings really are.

I think we must prohibit certain unescaped code points, but we must
allow any 16-bit number \u-escaped.  This is tied to JavaScript's
handling of those code points as well as to the validity of
UTF-8-encoding those code points.

The best practices document should further recommend the use of proper
Unicode characters only in JSON strings.

Nico
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