That's the news I was looking for! And even better (as I fix a bug in KeymanWeb with a Hieroglyphics keyboard - frustrations here which triggered my initial email), we can update our internal String codepoint support to mirror the design in that proposal.
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Markus Scherer Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2012 2:54 AM To: Steve Slevinski Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Support for non-BMP characters The ECMAScript committee (the people working on the JavaScript language spec) are again discussing building real UTF-16 support into the language. Here is a paper from one committee member: http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/03/ecmascript-supplementary-characters/index.html markus (not currently an ES committee member)
