Re: [WebIDL] introduce term "code unit"

On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> "16 bit unsigned integer code units" is a bit unwieldy. Can you introduce a shorter term for this? "code unit" works for me. (This would be useful for e.g. the CharacterData manipulation methods DOM Core has.)
> 

"code unit" is the term used throughout the ECMAScript 5 spec. after its first definition as "16-bit unsigned value" ("integer" is implicit in the definition).

Allen