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Re: [Json] JSON for Internet messages

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 03 July 2013 16:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] JSON for Internet messages
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

> We could argue about your list of things to mandate.  Are you counting
> escaped code units in their unescaped forms towards well-formed UTF-8?
>  Would we need a new media type, or could we say it doesn't matter,
> this is the Internet JSON?


Well-formed UTF-8 isn’t allowed to encode surrogates. Which meets the
minimal need; Frankly, I think string-handling code can, in practice, suck
it up and deal with all sorts of Unicode inappropriateness... just not
surrogates.  Also, I explicitly said the question of self-identification
(e.g. with a media type) is open. -T


> That aside, +1, even to the non-duplicate
> names requirement.
>
> Nico
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