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Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 03 September 2019 06:01 UTC

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Any deterministic encoding scheme always has an application layer canonicalization issue.
It’s just slightly worse for (I-)JSON because its generic data model has so few common data types, so more work is at the application layer, mapping to those data types.

Grüße, Carsten


> On Sep 3, 2019, at 07:46, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The (IMO) only real problem with JCS is in Appendix E:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme-06#appendix-E
> 
> Why is that?  Because you typically expect tools and libraries to do all the gory stuff.
> 
> In this particular case a part of the canonicalization process may spill over to the application.
> There are easy workarounds but workarounds is always a source of problems.
> 
> IF JCS gets firm adoption this problem could be more or less nullified but that's another story.
> 
> thanx,
> Anders
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