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

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Tue, 18 April 2017 11:55 UTC

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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 07:55:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
wrote:

In my view, the only reason to still have a MAY for UTF-16/32 is that this
> will avoid questions like: "I have a JSON parser in language FOO, it can
> take a string or an input stream as an argument. In FOO, strings are
> UTF-16, but the JSON RFC doesn't seem to allow this. What should I do."


The answer to that is something like this:  "In the IETF, we do interchange
standards.  What you do with JSON internally to your system is your own
business."

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