Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Sun, 01 June 2014 23:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)
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On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> Oh, right, the separator must be a character that must be escaped in
> strings.  That greatly limits the range of characters we can choose
> from.

And it has to be a one-byte character (therefore an ASCII character,
and the texts must be encoded in UTF-8).

Nico
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