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by ape4 3504 days ago
JSON should have a nicer way of dealing with double quotes in data. That would avoid many encoding mistakes.
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> JSON should have a nicer way of dealing with double quotes in data. That would avoid many encoding mistakes.

So you update the standard to this nicer way of dealing with double quotes, and now people forget to indicate whether they're using the nice new way or the ugly old way, or they mix the two approaches ….

It would have to be phased in ... like html5 or any browser improvement.