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Re: Python and JSON vs XML???

• To: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>
• Subject: Re: Python and JSON vs XML???
• From: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:20:22 -0600
• Cc: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>,Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:45 +0100, Chris Burdess wrote:

> There's another, perhaps more important issue. JSON assumes that string 
> literals are Unicode; however, it doesn't appear to specify anything 
> regarding how Unicode characters are supposed to be translated into 
> bytes. The examples are trite, providing only representations of ASCII 
> data. You can therefore be absolutely sure that there will be character 
> encoding conflicts as implementers decide on their own what the 
> character encoding ought to be. The declaration and content model for 
> comments is also implicit.

Good point, but not so for Python.  Python supports a source code
encoding declaration:

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html

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Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
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    • From: Chris Burdess <dog@b...>

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