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		tracker1 on July 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How not to sign a JSON object The original spec said UTF-8/16/32, but unaware of any reference implementation that used anything other than UTF-8 ... though, who knows with hand rolled crap, and windows in the mix.

Vendan on July 24, 2019 | [–]

https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-json.stringify

The stringify function returns a String in UTF-16 encoded JSON format representing an ECMAScript value, or undefined.

masklinn on July 25, 2019 | [–]

Python's `json` returns text, which you can encode however you want.

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