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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 17 June 2013 14:32 UTC

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Paul Hoffman scripsit:

> > Where's the contradiction?  The prose says exactly what the ABNF says.
> > %22 (quotation mark), %5C (backslash), and %D800 through %DFFF (surrogate
> > pairs) are left out of the full Unicode range.
> 
> U+0000-0019 is not the entire list of Unicode control characters? U+0022
> is not the only Unicode quotation mark.

I assume by "19" you mean "1F".  If you want to say "C0 control
characters", fine.  But there is only one Unicode character named
"QUOTATION MARK", and it is the only one relevant to JSON.

> Did we not learn anything from the IDN WG work 13 years ago?

I don't see what that has to do with the price of pídàn in China.
Other quotation marks and control characters need not be escaped in JSON.

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