Re: New full Unicode for ES6 idea

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

Received on Monday, 20 February 2012 00:01:54 UTC