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A comment on JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16?.

Re:JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? by lambda on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:54AM (#3489865)
The encoding is UTF-16, but what it calls "characters" are code units http://unicode.org/glossary/#code_unit, not code points http://unicode.org/glossary/#code_point.
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Re:JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? by mathias on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:56PM (#3490387)
Exactly. This makes it more like UCS-2 than like UTF-16.
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