Re: DOMString UTF-16

Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Graham Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Was pondering the requirement for UTF-16 for DOMString and it seems it could
> be more beneficial if this was an implementation decision on Unicode and not
> a requirement, after all UTF-8 is now the more favourable encoding in use
> today not to mention its more to do with internal handling of strings than
> the final overall use of those strings. How my DOM handles Unicode inside
> should not affect how my DOM handles transfer encodings overall as an API
> and on that grounds I see no reason for DOMString to be a UTF-16
> requirement.
>
> ??

It's actually more a 16-bit array than UTF-16 and this is all because
of JavaScript. And JavaScript is not going to change.


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