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Re: [Json] Proposed change: update the Unicode version

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 05 June 2013 16:51 UTC

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On Jun 5, 2013, at 03:50, "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <mamille2@cisco.com> wrote:

> JSON text takes the form of a Unicode string [UNICODE, section 2.7]; the
> default encoding is UTF-8.

It would help me if you could briefly explain what the reference to 2.7 specifically adds here.
(To me that is a bit confusing, as 2.7 is about internal programming language representation, not about representation for interchange.  But maybe I just don't understand.)

Grüße, Carsten

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