Re: javascript and unicode

Paul Hastings wrote:
> would it be correct to say that javascript "natively" supports unicode?

ECMAScript, of which JavaScript and JScript are implementations, is defined on 
16-bit Unicode 
scripts and using 16-bit Unicode strings.

In other words, the basic encoding support is there, but there are basically no 
Unicode-specific 
APIs in the standard. No character properties, no collation that is guaranteed 
to do more than 
strcmp, etc. Script writers have to rely on implementation-specific functions 
or supply their own.

I am working on getting some of the definitions, syntax and semantics upgraded 
to include 
supplementary code points (where not already covered by surrogate pairs in 
16-bit text), but I got 
involved a little late for the upcoming edition 4.

markus

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