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Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 06 June 2013 00:23 UTC

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Paul Hoffman scripsit:

> Can you say why an application would do that, given the JSON specification?

Perhaps because its designers believe that Section 4's explicit mustard
trumps section 1's definition.

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