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Re: [secdir] [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 13 March 2017 19:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03
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On 13 Mar 2017, at 18:54, Matthew A. Miller <linuxwolf@outer-planes.net> wrote:
> 
> no
> one (that I recall) reported implementing the detection table.

There even was one that implemented something for UTF-16/32: Jackson.
The author said:

"Most other
libraries just punt the problem by requiring caller to pass in Reader that
does byte->char decoding”

(He did not say whether his code was ever exercised outside of his test cases :-)

He also mentioned that, by contrast, most XML libraries do implement auto-detection (as they should).

Grüße, Carsten

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