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

Re:JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? by mathias on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:58PM (#3490398)
It’s worth pointing out that `'\ud800'` is not valid UCS-2 either, since UCS-2 technically doesn’t allow surrogate characters.

JavaScript strings are like UCS-2, except that they allow surrogate characters.

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