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Character encoding #8

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donmendelson opened this issue Dec 7, 2016 · 2 comments
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Character encoding #8

donmendelson opened this issue Dec 7, 2016 · 2 comments

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@donmendelson
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The spec should say something about character encoding. The default encoding in FIX tag=value is US-ASCII, so converting it to JSON will implicitly be in that encoding. However, for web APIs, the expectation would be to use UTF-8 by default.
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gelupa commented Aug 2, 2019

unicode has several variants. It is recommended that the encoding be fixed to UTF-8 only.

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Unfortunately, the JSON standards simply say "A JSON text is a sequence of tokens formed from Unicode code points" and do not peg to a specific version of Unicode.

BTW we changed the SBE standard to allow 8-bit character encodings since FIX engines no longer constrain tagvalue encoding to ASCII.

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