Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"

Pete Cordell <petejson@codalogic.com> Thu, 23 March 2017 22:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On 23/03/2017 21:37, Matthew A. Miller wrote:
> Our sponsoring AD and I have been discussing this option.  Alexey is
> willing to go through another IETF last call if we can get consensus.
>
> To start, to what degree is UTF-8 encouraged?
>
> 0) don't encourage UTF-8 more than already is
> 1) SHOULD encode as UTF-8 for all usages
> 2) SHOULD encode as UTF-8 where the media type is 'application/json'
> 3) MUST encode as UTF-8 where the media type is 'application/json'
> 4) other -- please specify

(3) is where I'd like to be and where I believe most implementations are 
based on list discussion.  This would seem to align the bis RFC with 
what's deployed, which seems the best approach for interoperability.

Also (1) for when not 'application/json' media type.

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd