Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] JSON mailing list and BoF

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Tue, 19 February 2013 23:13 UTC

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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:13:15 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
<jhildebr@cisco.com> wrote:
[...]
>>
>>
>>He means "\u0000 is an exception to Tim's proposed 'forbid escaping'
>>rule".
>
> Exactly.  It's the only code point that I know of that MUST be escaped
> using \uxxxx notation when serialized (either canonically or otherwise).
> All of the other codepoints that need to be escaped have \x versions.
>

OK, but why should it be considered illegal at all? Any ASCII
character is representable by such a sequence, it just happens that 0
can where ASCII can't... I don't see this as a reason to outlaw this
particular sequence... Or there is something I don't understand in
your argument.

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