Re: Changes to DOM3 Events Key Identifiers

Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> ECMAScript's "firm commitment" to a 16-bit character model (i.e. UTF-16)

If only.

JavaScript and JSON strings aren't sequences of characters, they are
sequences of 16-bit unsigned integers.  If you happen to want to interpret
them as UTF-16, you are free to do so, but there is not and never will
be any guarantee that all strings are well-formed UTF-16.  What's more,
the built-in JSON serializer provided by ECMAScript 5th edition does
not generate escape sequences for isolated surrogate codepoints, so that
some strings will be written out in CESU-8 rather than UTF-8.

Worse yet, the JSON RFC is self-contradictory, with the result that it's
not even clear that CESU-8-encoded JSON is illegal.

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