[Json] Wording on encoding; removing the table

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

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Please note that the chairs tried to find some consensus in the BOM discussion and found none. Given that, and given that the current table is now wrong, our proposal is to remove it, not try to doctor it.

Current Section 8.1:

   JSON text SHALL be encoded in Unicode.  The default encoding is
   UTF-8.

   Since the first two characters of a JSON text will always be ASCII
   characters [RFC0020], it is possible to determine whether an octet
   stream is UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE or LE), or UTF-32 (BE or LE) by looking
   at the pattern of nulls in the first four octets.

   00 00 00 xx  UTF-32BE
   00 xx 00 xx  UTF-16BE
   xx 00 00 00  UTF-32LE
   xx 00 xx 00  UTF-16LE
   xx xx xx xx  UTF-8

Proposed replacement:

   The default encoding for JSON transmitted over the Internet is UTF-8.
   Transmitting JSON using other encodings may not be interoperable
   unless the receiving system definitively knows the encoding.

Does anyone have a technical objection to the proposed replacement? If so, please state the error and (hopefully) a correction.

--Matt Miller and Paul Hoffman