Putting Unicode characters in JSON

[Ben Finney]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:09:50 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> Reconfigure your MySQL database to use UTF-8. There is no reason to
> >> use Latin-1 in the database.
> >
> > You don't know that. You don't know what technical, compatibility,
> > policy or historical constraints are on the database.
>
> Okay. Give me a good reason for the database itself to be locked to
> Latin-1.

That's a loaded question. If the database maintainers have a technical,
compatibility, policy, or historical reason that constrains an existing
database to a specific character set, then that is a good reason for
them.

Is it a good reason to create a new, independent database using Latin-1
character set? No. But that's implicit in the fact it's an existing
constraint, because it's an existing database.

Is it a reason likely to convince you? Or convince me? No. But that's
irrelevant because they don't have any need to convince us of the
goodness of their reason to keep that encoding :-)

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Ben Finney