Re: JSYNC

Ingy dot Net wrote:

> The base encoding is not yaml, it's json. I need to repurpose strings 
> that begin with a ! & or *. So in the rare case that an actual json 
> string begins with one of those, I need to escape it. I do that by 
> putting a '.' in front. Then I make the rule that in JSYNC, a '.' at the 
> start of a string is removed. Therefore I need to encode the string 
> '...' as "....". That's a simple rule. I could make things more 
> complicated by saying I only remove a leading '.' if it comes before a ! 
> & or *, but that seems a little too precious to me.

Making the '.' do quoting if only in front of a character that needs 
quoting makes sense, and would fix the problem I am worried about with 
numbers, since ".1" would be unchanged.

It does mean the set of characters to quote has to be defined, but it 
looks like "&*.@" might be enough.

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