Unicode education in Schools

[Norbert Lindenberg via Unicode]

ECMAScript 6 fixed that, largely along the lines of my proposal:
http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/05/ecmascript-supplementary-characters/index.html

Norbert


> On Aug 24, 2017, at 22:14 , Peter Constable via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> I thought Javascript had a UCS-2 understanding of Unicode strings. Has it managed to progress beyond that?
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> From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org] On Behalf Of David Starner via Unicode
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 5:18 PM
> To: Unicode Mailing List <unicode at unicode.org>
> Subject: Fwd: Unicode education in Schools
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> From: David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 6:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Unicode education in Schools
> To: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com>
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> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 5:26 PM Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> Just steer them away from UTF-16!  (And vigorously prohibit the very
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> Steer them away from reinventing the wheel. If they use Java, use Java strings. If they're using GTK, use strings compatible with GTK. If they're writing JavaScript, use JavaScript strings. There's basically no system without Unicode strings or that they would be better off rewriting the wheel.
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