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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 04 June 2013 23:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed change: update the Unicode version
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On 6/4/13 4:51 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im
> <mailto: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"?
> 
> 
> I would *love* to, but we’re <sob> not allowed to change anything.  This
> is another candidate for that best-practices doc. -T

You are right.

Peter

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