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Re: [Json] The text in draft-ietf-json-text-sequence

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 15 July 2014 07:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] The text in draft-ietf-json-text-sequence
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Nico Williams scripsit:

> and considering that if we used RS a logger would still have to check
> that a text to be logged does not include RS,...

How so?  JSON cannot contain unescaped RS; an RS in a string must
appear as \u001F.

> Loggers would have to s/LF/SP/g or s/LF//g or equivalent.  But in the
> common case this is equivalent to checking that a text to be logged has
> no RS.

No such check is called for.

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