Jordan Tucker

@spitzak Thanks for the suggestions. > Otherwise it is impossible to store arbitrary bytes as strings in JSON5. This makes it impossible to use JSON5 to represent any data that...

But any JSON library that parses `\x` escapes is non-standard because JSON does not allow `\x` escapes. In my experience, byte sequences are stored as arrays of numbers in JSON.

> The reason to allow invalid bytes is so this does not have to be done and filenames, including the valid portions of ones containing invalid bytes, can remain readable....

Edit: Please disregard the comments below as they don't really make sense on second look. Since JSON5 is already widely in use, disallowing certain behavior that was previously allowed would...

@spitzak I can't tell if you're agreeing with my comments or not. If not, can you please propose an alternate recommendation to the spec.

Looks like this is a bug in the [actual draft](http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts#october_14_2014_draft_rev_28) and should be reported to [bugs.ecmascript.org](https://bugs.ecmascript.org/).

kangax is looking pretty bad for deuteranomaly. Just shades of yellow. What's worse, the shade of yellow gets darker as more tests pass, but if no tests pass, then it's...