From 139f67ecfcce48f29905dae223ced2e257335d35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stuart Mumford Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:38:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a sentence about what canoncial JSON is Signed-off-by: Stuart Mumford --- content/appendices.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/appendices.md b/content/appendices.md index dc3ced66..446e709a 100644 --- a/content/appendices.md +++ b/content/appendices.md @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ object. ### Canonical JSON -We define the canonical JSON encoding for a value to be the shortest +To ensure that all implementations use the same JSON encoding we define +"Canonical JSON". This should not be confused with other uses of +"Canonical JSON" outside of the specification. + +We define this encoding for a value to be the shortest UTF-8 JSON encoding with dictionary keys lexicographically sorted by Unicode codepoint. Numbers in the JSON must be integers in the range `[-(2**53)+1, (2**53)-1]`.