Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 07 June 2013 19:48 UTC

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Nico Williams scripsit:

> We already know to allow the user of unassigned code points.  We can't
> avoid having a normative reference to a Unicode version, if that was
> your goal.

As long as it's recent enough to incorporate non-characters, that's enough.

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