They wanted to parse some bytes as utf-16, but are unable to do so because V8 only understands ucs2 (with invalid surrogate pairs). This is a major problem wit

They wanted to parse some bytes as utf-16, but are unable to do so because V8 only understands ucs2 (with invalid surrogate pairs). This is a major problem with node- ie, it happily produces/consumes invalid unicode encoded strings.