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Re: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Thu, 13 June 2013 17:46 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Thread-Topic: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text
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On 6/13/13 6:16 AM, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

>The point is that if JSON is encoded in UTF-8, any surrogate code points
>MUST be escaped, even though the grammar does not say so.

What about changing the grammar to make that clear?

unescaped = %x20-21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-%xD7FF / %E000-%10FFFF
 ; Any unicode code point except control characters, QUOTATION MARK,
 ; REVERSE SOLIDUS, or code points reserved for UTF-16 surrogates

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Joe Hildebrand

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