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Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Mon, 02 September 2019 21:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:34:52PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2019, at 23:17, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> > I'm loather to have to add
> > support for transliterating to UTF-16 code for canonicalization
> > purposes.
> 
> It’s not that bad.
> 
> If you have the code point cp, you can translate this to a comparison value by doing

Yes, I'm aware.  It's not that bad.  It's not that bad for the other
camp either (since they must already have UTF-{8, 16} transliteration.

Neither choice here is the end of the world for anyone.

Nico
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