On 20 February 2012 09:56, Andrew Oakley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> While this is being discussed, for any new string handling I think we
> should make any invalid strings (according to the rules in Unicode)
> cause some kind of exception on creation.
>
Can you clarify which definition in the Unicode standard you are proposing
for "invalid string"?
> Most content actually only tries to access characters of a string like
this:
>
> for (var i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
> str[i];
> }
Does anybody have any data on this? I'm genuinely curious about how much
code "on the web" does any kind of character access on strings; the only
common use-case that comes to mind (other than wanting uint16[]) is users
who are doing UTF-16 on top of UCS-2.
Wes
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