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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11-06-02 10:33 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> Must:
> * handle binary data (librarian, gpg signing requests,

AIUI, JSON does not natively support binary data.  It defines only a
unicode string datatype.

http://json.org/

There are all kinds of potential workarounds, from base64 encoding to
arrays of numbers, but you then need to specify that the item is bytes,
not whatever it appears to be.

Aaron
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