Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings

[Tim Bray <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:09 PM, John Cowan <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > I think anyone who’s delivering those codepoints is already in
> > violation of 4627, and I don’t think we should retroactively forgive
> > those sins.
>
> It's already been stated that ECMA can't swallow this change.
>

I thought ECMA’s indigestion was over dupe keys.

It seems to me that if unpaired surrogates are to be allowed, it’s not OK
for the spec to assert that strings are made of Unicode characters, because
both of these things can’t be correct.  -T

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