- From: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:58:28 -0800
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, mranney@voxer.com, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
Cameron McCormack wrote: > Brendan Eich: > > 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? > > I say "code unit" as a shorter way of saying "16 bit unsigned integer > code unit" > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#dfn-code-unit > > (which DOM4 also links to) and then just "code point" to refer to 21 > bit numbers that might correspond to a Unicode character, which you > can see used in > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#dfn-obtain-unicode Well then, you are one up on ECMA-262, and from Mark Davis's message using canonical Unicode terms. We shall strive to align terms. Here's another q for the DOM folks and others using WebIDL: is extending the DOM and other specs to respect the BRS and support full Unicode conceivable from where you sit? Desirable? Thanks. /be
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