On Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 10:30 AM Anders Rundgren < [email protected]> wrote:
> Violently agree but do not understand (I guess I'm just dumb...) why (for > example) sorting on UCS2/UTF-16 Code Units would not achieve the same goal > (although the result would differ). > Because there are JavaScript strings which do not form valid UTF-16 code units. For example, the one-character string '\uD800'. On the input validation side, there are 8-bit strings which can not be decoded as UTF-8. A complete sorting spec needs to describe how these are to be handled. For example, something like WTF-8: http://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ --scott >
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