New full Unicode for ES6 idea
Brendan Eich
brendan at mozilla.com
Sun Feb 19 15:31:11 PST 2012
Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
>
>> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> ...
>>> Your proposal would change that equivalence. In one sense, the BSR
>>> would be a switch that controls whether a ES "character" corresponds
>>> to "code unit" or a "code point"
>>
>> Yes, and we might rather have a different word on that basis too.
>>
>> How about "character element"? "Element" to capture indexing as the
>> means of accessing the thing in question.
>
> I generally try to use "element" in informal contexts for exactly that
> reason. However, shouldn't it be "string element" and we could let
> "character" and "Unicode character" mean the same thing?
Yes, see my es-discuss+you followup -- should have measured twice and
cut once.
I like this much better than anything overloading "character".
To hope to make this sideshow beneficial to all the cc: list, what do
DOM specs use to talk about uint16 units vs. code points?
/be
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