ECMAScript 6 fixed that, largely along the lines of my proposal:
http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/05/ecmascript-supplementary-characters/index.html
Norbert
> On Aug 24, 2017, at 22:14 , Peter Constable via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> I thought Javascript had a UCS-2 understanding of Unicode strings
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:57:37 +0100 (BST)
William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote:
> UTF-16 is very useful. I use it in my research project.
> If the byte content of a UTF-16 file is displayed in a hexadecimal
> display then for all plane 0 characters the byte content of the
> character codes ar
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:36:00 +0300
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:23:40 +0100
> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:17:10 +
> > Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
> >
> > > So, I consider it important to familiarise student
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:09:33 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> > > Just steer them away from UTF-16!
> >
> > Which will leave them entirely unprepared for the MS-Windows Unicode
> > programming, something they of course will never need in their
> > careers.
>
> It shouldn'
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:55:25 +0300
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:09:33 +0100
> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> > It shouldn't. UTF-16 works just like UTF-8, except that the code
> > units are bigger.
> Not really, since UTF-8 doesn't have surrogates
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:52:03 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> > > It shouldn't. UTF-16 works just like UTF-8, except that the code
> > > units are bigger.
>
> > Not really, since UTF-8 doesn't have surrogates.
>
> It has 115 surrogates, thoroughly oppressed by the UTC -
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:24:36 +0200
Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
> 2017-08-17 22:37 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
> unicode@unicode.org>:
>
> > Fortunately, there is no good evidence that the occurrence
> > of multiple distinct left matras is anything but a typing error,
> > t
2017-08-26 21:28 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
unicode@unicode.org>:
>
> I'm wondering if there are any cases where a SHY _should_ go between a
> Latin letter and diacritic. I can't think of any.
>
In standard Latin orthography you would not expect it, normally, but there
will be ca
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:20:45 +0300
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:52:03 +0100
> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> We are miscommunicating. My point was that programming for MS-Windows
> needs a good understanding of what the UTF-16 surrogates are, and in
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 22:07:57 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> > We are miscommunicating. My point was that programming for MS-Windows
> > needs a good understanding of what the UTF-16 surrogates are, and in
> > what MS-Windows APIs/library functions they can and cannot be us
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:52:19 +0200
Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
> 2017-08-26 21:28 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
> unicode@unicode.org>:
> Of course SHY in this use is not suitable, but who knows if one will
> not need this to split in tow parts what would be otherwise a sing
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:36:44 -0400
John W Kennedy wrote:
> Just a reminder that in Apple’s Swift a “Character” is anything that
> looks like a character, including a letter with any theoretically
> unlimited stack of diacritics, a flag, or a skin-toned emoji, and all
> Swift functions working wit
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