- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:00:04 +0100
- To: "Norbert Lindenberg" <ecmascript@norbertlindenberg.com>, "Brendan Eich" <brendan@mozilla.com>
- Cc: es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, mranney@voxer.com
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:50:28 +0100, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote: > Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> OK - migrations are hard. But so far most participants have only seen >> additional work, no benefits. How long will this take? When will it >> end? When will browsers make BRS-on the default, let alone eliminate >> the switch? When can Roozbeh abandon his original version? Where's the >> blue button? > > It may be that the BRS is worse than an incompatible change to "full > Unicode" as Allen proposed last year. But in either case, something gets > harder for Roozbeh. Which is worse? Is the benefit of doing this switch at all large enough? Even though it becomes somewhat easier to deal with 💩 you still have grapheme clusters you will need to work around. That is, it is not clear code points are the right abstraction point and then you might as well keep 16-bit code units with support for surrogate code points so you can render everything above BMP too. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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