Re: [Json] Proposal: Code points and surrogates

Norbert Lindenberg <ietf@lindenbergsoftware.com> Sun, 23 June 2013 05:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposal: Code points and surrogates
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On Jun 22, 2013, at 15:10 , Carsten Bormann wrote:

> On Jun 18, 2013, at 09:43, Norbert Lindenberg <ietf@lindenbergsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
>> JSON allows
> 
> are you trying to say
> 
> (a) a conforming parser is required to accept
> 
> or
> 
> (b) a conforming parser is not required to reject

I mean "the JSON grammar allows" (the proposed text would go into a subsection of the Grammar section).

According to the last sentence of section 4, parsers are not required to accept any characters or code points at all.

Norbert