Re: [Json] Proposed change: update the Unicode version

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Tue, 04 June 2013 22:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed change: update the Unicode version
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>wrote:

> Are people using UTF-16 or UTF-32? Is there a good reason not to say
> "MUST encode using UTF-8"?
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I would *love* to, but we’re <sob> not allowed to change anything.  This is
another candidate for that best-practices doc. -T


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