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TLDR: v8 "sucks" (and doesn't support Unicode code points outside of the lowest ~64k characters). Edit: v8 in general is pretty cool, but not supporting Unicod
by throwaway54-762 14y ago
TLDR: v8 "sucks" (and doesn't support Unicode code points outside of the lowest ~64k characters).
Edit: v8 in general is pretty cool, but not supporting Unicode outside UCS-2 is pretty bad.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- marshray 14y agoMost apps seem to "support" surrogate pairs by simply not being aware of them at all. Good on the V8 developers for recognizing these conditions that their code didn't fully handle and refusing to muddle on through with broken processing.