The fact that JSON is UTF-8 doesn't contradict the fact that it's bytes! That's a feature, not a bug. i.e. "exterior designs are layered" - https://www.oilshe

The fact that JSON is UTF-8 doesn't contradict the fact that it's bytes! That's a feature, not a bug. i.e. "exterior designs are layered" - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html#exterior-designs-are-layered https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html#exteri... This is not a trivial point -- there are plenty of specs which are sloppy about text, try to abstract over code points, and result in non-working software. A main example is the shitshow with libc and Unicode - https://thephd.dev/cuneicode-and-the-future-of-text-in-c#standard-c https://thephd.dev/cuneicode-and-the-future-of-text-in-c#sta... It suffers from what I call "interior fictions", like wchar_t.