Re: [Json] Encoding detection (Was: Re: JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft)

On 2013-11-26 21:15, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Nico Williams wrote:
>> We must not require encoding detection functionality in parsers.  We
>> must not forbid it either.  We might need to say that encodings other
>> than UTF-8/16/32 may not be reliably detected, therefore they are highly
>> discouraged, even forbidden except where protocols specifically call for
>> them.
>
> When I pass a fully conforming UTF-8 encoded application/json entity to
> a fully conforming JSON parser I do not want the parser to do something
> funny like interpreting the document as if it were Windows-1252 encoded.
> I am amazed how many people here think a parser that does that should
> not be considered broken.

+1