Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Paul Hoffman scripsit:

> As a summary from below: you prefer a more normal character like NL
> plus the need to escape it in strings, versus an obscure character
> like RS that requires no escaping. Is that correct?

Both require escaping in strings.  The difference is that LF can appear as
insignificant whitespace, whereas RS cannot.  So to achieve the same thing
as RS achieves (restartable/correctable writes), it's simply necessary never
to spit out an insignificant LF.

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