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Re:JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? by mathias on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:14AM (#3489325)
> It's kind of like saying that 7-bit ASCII and UTF-8 are character encodings for Unicode.

They can only encode a subset of Unicode, sure, but they’re still character encodings for Unicode, right?

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Re:JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? by __alexs on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:26AM (#3489352)
Sure, but if I buy a product released in 2012 that advertises "Unicode" support, and it turns out that it only supports a version of it from the era of IE4, I'm probably going to whine.
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