[[ Adding the JSON WG to this thread ]] On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Supporting encodings other than UTF-8 in new formats is not good. > > Supporting UTF-32 is actively harmful as support for it has been > removed or is being removed from clients. You ought to actively > recommend against it. > > In general ASCII incompatible encodings have very bad security > characteristics, the IETF would do well to steer away from them, just > like the W3C has. > > > -- > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >