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Encode to JSON according to RFC 8785 canonicalization scheme. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8785

encodeCanonical uses toJSON to produce intermediate Value, as toEncoding may (and most likely) produces non-canonical JSON.

Note: decode (encodeCanonical v) === Just v for all v :: Value, i.e. encodeCanonical doesn't lose any information.

However, the example in RFC8785 loses information as the intermediate number representation is Double, also current toJSON :: Double -> Value sometimes produces too precise values. For example

>>> toJSON (1e23 :: Double)
Number 9.999999999999999e22

show also behaves the same:

>>> 1e23 :: Double
9.999999999999999e22

Note: RFC8785 is not the same scheme as used in canonical-json package (https:/wiki.laptop.orggo/Canonical_JSON). That scheme produces invalid JSON (e.g. control characters encoded as is, not escaped) and cannot encode non-integral numbers.

Since: 2.2.1.0