Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Please change t- to behave like t when diacritics are autoremoved./reply (14)

You suggested I "write a module to convert [the data] into a more suitable format", this format being "whatever format the bot owner finds convenient to parse". I, agreeing with your criteria, chose JSON, because it's a widely-supported and well-understood format, easily capable of representing anything we're likely to want it to. (And because the bot already uses a JSON parser to parse API responses with format=json.)