On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:41:40PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Nico Williams scripsit: > > > RS cannot accidentally result from truncating a multi-byte UTF-8 > > encoded codepoint. > > I realize that. But because such truncations are possible, we can't > assert that a well-formed JSON text sequence is necessarily well-formed > UTF-8 as a whole. Oh, I see what you're saying, you're objecting to the sentence that David wanted added to section 2, before 2.1. We could prefix "Well-formed " to that sentence and make this concern go away :)