Re: JSON: encodings

To be clear, this is a Last Call comment on
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-json-rfc4627bis-07 The JSON Data
Interchange Format (draft-ietf-json-rfc4627bis-07).

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> Supporting encodings other than UTF-8 in new formats is not good.
>
> Supporting UTF-32 is actively harmful as support for it has been
> removed or is being removed from clients. You ought to actively
> recommend against it.
>
> In general ASCII incompatible encodings have very bad security
> characteristics, the IETF would do well to steer away from them, just
> like the W3C has.


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Received on Tuesday, 12 November 2013 07:09:53 UTC