New full Unicode for ES6 idea
Brendan Eich
brendan at mozilla.com
Tue Feb 21 08:48:12 PST 2012
Phillips, Addison wrote:
>> Normalization happens to source upstream of the JS engine. Here I'll call on a
>> designated Unicode hitter. ;-)
>>
>
> I agree that Unicode Normalization shouldn't happen automagically in the JS engine. I rather doubt that "normalization happens to source upstream of the JS engine", unless by "upstream" you mean "best see to the normalization yourself".
Yes ;-).
I meant ECMA-262 punts source normalization upstream in the spec
pipeline that runs parallel to the browser's loading-the-URL |
processing-what-was-loaded pipeline. ECMA-262 is concerned only with its
little slice of processing heaven.
> By contrast, providing a method for normalizing strings would be useful.
/summon Norbert.
/be
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