On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:
> Arbitrary 16-bit values can be placed in a String using either > String.fromCharCode (15.5.3.2) or the \uxxxx notation in string literals. > Neither of these enforce a requirement that individual String elements are > valid Unicode code units. > You can't really store arbitrary 16-bit values in strings, as they will get corrupted in some browsers. Specifically combining marks and unpaired surrogates are problematic, and some invalid code points get replaced with another character. Even if it is only text, you can't rely on the strings not being mangled -- GWT RPC quotes different ranges of characters on different browsers. http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/impl/ClientSerializationStreamWriter.java?spec=svn10146&r=10146#86 (the Android bug mentioned has been fixed long ago, but I haven't gone through any kind of research to see how many of the broken browsers are still in use to see if it is safe to remove). -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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