On 10 September 2011 12:23, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Friesen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here's another kick: >> - Using JSON in php, when you decode what you encoded you don't always >> get the same thing back (serialize you of course do) >> > Even serialize() doesn't round-trip cleanly in certain cases: > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55495
Another point came up in IRC discussions: "JSON converts UTF-8 characters to unicode escape sequences. serialize() does not." This effectively negates any size advantages JSON might have. I noticed JSON is used extensively in resource loader. Roan: did you consider this point when choosing JSON format for storing message resources? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
