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Re: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Thu, 13 June 2013 18:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:16 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> The point is that if JSON is encoded in UTF-8, any surrogate code points
> MUST be escaped, even though the grammar does not say so.
>

Why?  UTF-8 is perfectly capable of representing those integers.  Yes, the
spec says that You Shouldn’t Do That, but it says the same thing about
unpaired surrogates in UTF-16.  For historical reasons JSON allows the
encoding of stuff that is strictly nonconforming to Unicode.  This will
break lots of things, not just UTF-8 decoders (most of which, I bet, will
never actually notice).  -T



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