would it be correct to say that javascript "natively" supports unicode?
ECMAScript, of which JavaScript and JScript are implementations, is defined on 16-bit Unicode scripts and using 16-bit Unicode strings.
In other words, the basic encoding support is there, but there are basically no Unicode-specific APIs in the standard. No character properties, no collation that is guaranteed to do more than strcmp, etc. Script writers have to rely on implementation-specific functions or supply their own.
I am working on getting some of the definitions, syntax and semantics upgraded to include supplementary code points (where not already covered by surrogate pairs in 16-bit text), but I got involved a little late for the upcoming edition 4.
markus
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