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

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 05:46 UTC

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From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] In "praise" of UTF-16
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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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