There was a rumor that was IETF was going to specify a bunch of new breaking changes in RFC 7195 (March 2014), and because of that (irrational) fear ECMA publis

There was a rumor that was IETF was going to specify a bunch of new breaking changes in RFC 7195 (March 2014), and because of that (irrational) fear ECMA published the 1st edition of 404 very quickly in October of 2013. RFC 8259 and the 2nd edition of ECMA-404 contain the same change, a single sentence, specifying that JSON must use UTF-8.