Re: [Json] JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft

2013-11-14 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: The question was specifically about ECMA-404, not ECMA-252. It would be great to hear from TC39 whether or not ECMA-404 allows or disallows it. ECMA=nnn is the correct designation for Ecma standards. When speaking about the organization

Re: [Json] JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft

2013-11-14 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:33 AM, John Cowan wrote: Per contra, ECMA-404 refers only to text(ual content). The BOM is meaningful when transforming byte sequences into code point sequences, but ECMA-404 deals in the latter only. So it is the furthest thing from surprising that it makes no

Re: [Json] JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft

2013-11-13 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: no hat On Nov 13, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) jhild...@cisco.com wrote: We would also need to change section 8.1 according to the mechanism that was previously proposed: 00 00 00 xx UTF-32BE 00 xx ?? xx UTF-16BE

Re: [Json] JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft

2013-11-13 Thread Mark Davis ☕
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) jhild...@cisco.com wrote: that all software implementations which receive the un-prefixed text will not generate parse errors. perhaps: ...​all conformant software ...​ Mark https://google.com/+MarkDavis *— Il meglio è l’inimico

Re: [Json] JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft

2013-11-13 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Nov 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) wrote: On 11/13/13 3:47 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote: It's not clear that 404 disallows it, since 404 is defined in terms of characters, and a BOM is not a character but an out-of-band signal. However, for example, a