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		haberman on May 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The WTF-8 encoding An interesting possible application for this is JSON parsers. If JSON strings contain unpaired surrogate code points, they could either throw an error or encode as WTF-8. I bet some JSON parsers think they are converting to UTF-8, but are actually converting to GUTF-8.

SimonSapin on May 28, 2015 [–]

If you want to preserve unpaired surrogates that are hex-encoded in JSON strings, WTF-8 could help. But it’s unclear to me that you should: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-8.2

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