[issue17909] Autodetecting JSON encoding

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

If you adjusted the detect_encoding() logic according to Pete Cordell’s table at the bottom of <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/json/current/msg01959.html>, it might work for standalone strings.

However since the RFC encourages UTF-8 for best interoperability, I wonder if any of this autodetection is necessary. It might be simpler to just assume UTF-8, or use the “utf-8-sig” codec. Or are there real cases where detecting UTF-16 or -32 would be useful?

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