ahh - thx - so that explains why RFC 6749 OAuth 2.0 is ambiguous on the
topic. I suspect that means that GNAP will take a dependency on 8259,
Peace ..tom


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:34 AM Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote:

> On 2020-07-13, at 17:19, Tom Jones <thomasclinganjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What, exactly is json encoding?
>
> JSON is defined in RFC 8259.
> The term “encoding” is ambiguous here, it could be used for the encoding
> of a JSON text (which employs UTF-8) or the representation of an
> application data model using the JSON generic data model.
>
> > It sounds like a python or java method.
>
> Many languages and platforms support JSON.
>
> > Afaik json can be encoded in utf 8 16 or 32.
>
> Early definitions of JSON said so, even though that practically never
> happened in interchange.  RFC 8259 supports UTF-8 encoding only.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
>
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