Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 12 March 2014 03:49 UTC

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Manger, James scripsit:

> The spec needs to say: either "encoders MUST use a newline separator";
> or "decoders MUST be able to handle any whitespace (including none in
> the unambiguous cases)".

Or, as I suggest, "encoders MUST use whitespace".

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