Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:16:55PM -0700, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
> > I believe it's more "DHTML" that is the problem.
> >
> > DOMString is specified to be UTF-16. Likewise for ECMAScript strings,
> > IIRC, although they may still be officially UCS-2.
> 
> Indeed, this was what I was thinking of. Thanks for clarifying. BTW,
> any idea WHY they brought the UTF-16 nonsense to DOM/DHTML/etc.?

Was it like Java, which was defined when Unicode was just 16 bits, before
it got expanded to 32 bits and 16-bit Unicode effectively became UTF-16?


Daniel

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