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Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings

Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> Thu, 06 June 2013 10:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings
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On 6/5/2013 8:58 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Douglas Crockford scripsit:
>
>> When the RFC talks about Unicode Characters, it is in the sense
>> of Unicode Characters  and not EBCDIC Characters.
> That's just confusing.  "Unicode character" means something quite
> definite in Unicode.  If you mean "character in the Unicode repertoire",
> that's fine -- but all EBCDIC characters, in all variants of EBCDIC,
> are just a subset of that.  There seems to me no reason why JSON
> couldn't be encoded in EBCDIC, with appropriate escapes.
>
Of course it is confusing. The text must be clarified to talk about 
codepoints.

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