- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:52:26 +0100
- To: "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <mamille2@cisco.com>
- Cc: JSON WG <json@ietf.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
* Matt Miller (mamille2) wrote: >There does seem to be rough consensus that using an encoding other than >UTF-8 can have interoperability issues. The also seems to be rough >consensus that the current text and table in section 8.1 for detecting >the encoding will be inaccurate (and potentially harmful). > >That appears to mean the approach with the most consensus is to remove >the encoding detection entirely, leaving only: > >"""" > JSON text SHALL be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is > UTF-8. >"""" Neither of the quoted statements mean anything as far as I can tell. The encoding detection rules are a vital part of the specification and cannot be removed without replacement. I am not aware of any argument that the text "will be" inaccurate or harmful. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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