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Re: [Json] A possible summary of the discussion so far on code points and characters

Stephen Dolan <stephen.dolan@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 10 June 2013 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] A possible summary of the discussion so far on code points and characters
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On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:23 AM, R S <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a requirement. Here are some additional references:
>
> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:support_full_unicode_in_strings&rev=1305822947>
> <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-May/014337.html>
>
> The paragraph following the one I cited:
>
> 'Throughout the rest of this document, the phrase “code unit” and the word
> “character” will be used to refer to a 16-bit unsigned value used to
> represent a single 16-bit unit of text. The phrase “Unicode character” will
> be used to refer to the abstract linguistic or typographical unit
> represented by a single Unicode scalar value (which may be longer than 16
> bits and thus may be represented by more than one code unit). The phrase
> “code point” refers to such a Unicode scalar value. “Unicode character” only
> refers to entities represented by single Unicode scalar values: the
> components of a combining character sequence are still individual “Unicode
> characters,” even though a user might think of the whole sequence as a
> single character.' <http://es5.github.io/x6.html>
>
> - Rob

Sorry, I misread.

Stephen

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