On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:26 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@opera.com>
wrote:
I tied it to UTF-8 to further the fight on encoding proliferation and
encourage developers to always use that encoding.
FYI, I also tied it to ECMAScript's definition of JSON, which has some
restrictions in place that the JSON RFC does not have. Given that
ECMAScript thus far had the only platform-based implementation of JSON it
made sense for XMLHttpRequest to follow that.
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
