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Re: [Json] Encoding detection (Was: Re: JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 26 November 2013 23:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Encoding detection (Was: Re: JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft)
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On 27 Nov 2013, at 00:07, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

> Do you want to say anything about other encodings?  What would that be?

JSON is encoded in UTF-8.

There is no need to discuss JSON in other encodings, because it wouldn’t be JSON.

(And no, I see no need to handle UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE or UTF-32BE in any special way, even if RFC 4627 was written at a time when it still seemed useful to pay them lip service.  But I recognize that there appears to be WG consensus to keep these corpses on life support, maybe because UTF-16 is the internal encoding of the programming language that gave JSON its name.)

Grüße, Carsten

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