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Re:Lessons of JSON by sopooneo on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:32PM (#3910284)
Please forgive my ignorance, but why not? Couldn't the entire JSON response be, for instance, UTF-8 encoded, thus allowing the representation of all possible Unicode code points?
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Re:Lessons of JSON by pjscott on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:26PM (#3910589)
Yes. In fact, JSON documents must be Unicode text, and the default encoding is UTF-8.
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