Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
On Feb 19, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
Thanks. We have a confusing transposition of terms between Unicode and
ECMA-262, it seems. Should we fix?
The ES5.1 spec.is ok because it always uses (as defined in section 6) the term "Unicode character" when it
means exactly that and uses "character" when talking about the elements of String values. It says that both
"code unit" and "character" refer to a 16-bit unsigned value.
That is still pretty confusing. I hope we can stop abusing "character"
by overloading it in ECMA-262 in this way.
Your proposal would change that equivalence. In one sense, the BSR would be a switch that controls whether a
ES "character" corresponds to "code unit" or a "code point"
Yes, and we might rather have a different word on that basis too.
How about "character element"? "Element" to capture indexing as the
means of accessing the thing in question.
/be
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