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Re: [Json] Unpaired surrogates in JSON strings

Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> Wed, 05 June 2013 18:58 UTC

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On 6/5/2013 11:47 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Douglas Crockford scripsit:
>
>> Such a requirement will be breaking. Breaking changes are out of scope.
> How is it a breaking change to limit what documents are allowed to be
> *generated*?
>
Because JSON is currently being used in applications that deliver those 
codepoints.
I believe that ECMA cannot accept if this is changed.

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