Subj : Re: String constants in file
To   : Jeroen de Borst <jeroen42@yahoo.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Mar 01 2004 12:32 pm

Jeroen de Borst wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was just wondering what charset is assumed when JS_CompileScript and/or
>JS_CompileFile are being invoked.
>Are the bytes in a string constant just assumed to be UCS-2 values, like
>when the charset is ISO-8859-1? Or does it depend on the locale?
>

They're chopped-down UTF-16 code points, which are the same as 
ISO-8859-1 code points.  They're not in any locale-specific multibyte 
encoding -- this should be clear from looking at the code, 
js_InflateString in particular.

/be

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