Re: Language maps and undefined language

Personally, I would be happy with "" ... I was simply relaying a previously
received objection to it.  If that isn't an actual technical hurdle, then
great!

Rob

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Jakob Voß <Jakob.Voss@gbv.de> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Rob wrote:
>
> Note that we cannot use "", as noted, because PHP does not support
>>> empty string as the key of a dictionary... and thus we fallback to
>>> using "und”.
>>>
>>
> "" is a legal object key in JSON and PHP just happens to be one
> programming languages with full support of JSON, so why design JSON-LD with
> focus on a particular choice of implementation in PHP? The language can
> deal with "" keys in JSON data pretty well:
>
> <?php
> $json = '{"":1}';
> $data = json_decode($json, true);
> echo $data[""]; # prints '1'
> ?>
>
> If you prefer PHP objects over PHP arrays, the "" can internally be
> replaces by another special value but that's a personal choice of
> implementation and out of the scope of JSON-LD.
>
> Using "" for non-language strings looks like the cleanest and most obvious
> solution to me.
>
> Jakob
>
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Rob Sanderson
Semantic Architect
The Getty Trust
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