8.1.  Character Encoding

   JSON text exchanged between systems that are not part of a closed
   ecosystem MUST be encoded using UTF-8 [RFC3629].

   Previous specifications of JSON have not required the use of UTF-8
   when transmitting JSON text.  However, the vast majority of JSON-
   based software implementations have chosen to use the UTF-8 encoding,
   to the extent that it is the only encoding that achieves
   interoperability.

   Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark (U+FEFF) to the
   beginning of a networked-transmitted JSON text.  In the interests of
   interoperability, implementations that parse JSON texts MAY ignore
   the presence of a byte order mark rather than treating it as an
   error.