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Re: [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03

2017-03-13 14:08:20
On 13 Mar 2017, at 18:54, Matthew A. Miller 
<linuxwolf(_at_)outer-planes(_dot_)net> wrote:

no
one (that I recall) reported implementing the detection table.

There even was one that implemented something for UTF-16/32: Jackson.
The author said:

"Most other
libraries just punt the problem by requiring caller to pass in Reader that
does byte->char decoding”

(He did not say whether his code was ever exercised outside of his test cases 
:-)

He also mentioned that, by contrast, most XML libraries do implement 
auto-detection (as they should).

Grüße, Carsten