On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:15:31 +0100, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:19 AM, Wes Garland wrote: >> I think so, too -- especially as any sequence of Unicode code points -- >> including invalid and reserved code points -- constitutes a valid >> Unicode string, according to my recollection of the Unicode >> specification. > > For the moment, I'll simply take Wes' word for the above, as it > logically makes sense. For some uses, you want to process all possible > code points (for example, when validating data from an external > source). At this lowest level you don't want to impose higher level > Unicode semantic constraints: > > if (stringFromElseWhere.indexOf("\u{d800}")) .... It's wrong though. UTF-8 cannot express surrogate code points for instance. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/Received on Monday, 20 February 2012 17:20:50 UTC
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