Re: [Json] What are we trying to do?

Norbert Lindenberg <ietf@lindenbergsoftware.com> Thu, 04 July 2013 03:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] What are we trying to do?
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On Jul 3, 2013, at 20:05 , John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> I would say that the potential is there for any JSON system running on
> a JVM, CLR, or JavaScript platform, since in all of these a string is
> a sequence of 16-bit code points.

You mean 16-bit code units, not code points.
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_point
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_unit

Norbert