Have a look at this stack overflow question[1]. Javascript/ECMAScript strings are supposed to be UTF-16. That said UTF-16 encodes 4 byte codepoints just as ea

Have a look at this stack overflow question[1]. Javascript/ECMAScript strings are supposed to be UTF-16. That said UTF-16 encodes 4 byte codepoints just as easily as UTF-8. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8715980/javascript-strings-utf-16-vs-ucs-2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8715980/javascript-string...