Subj : Re: Unicode APIs
To   : Sterling Bates
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Wed May 12 2004 08:02 pm

Sterling Bates wrote:
> Does anyone have a reply for this?  I don't mind being told I'm 
> completely off the wall here, I'd just like to know how to proceed :)
> 
> Sterling Bates wrote:
> 
>> Some of the APIs do not appear to have Unicode equivalents, such as: 
>> JS_DefineObject, JS_BufferIsCompilableUnit, JS_CallFunction*, and 
>> possibly a few others (haven't finished Unicode compatibility).  For 
>> the time being I'm converting from UC to single-byte on those APIs.
>>
>> Is this deliberate (ie there's a workaround), or should I file a bug 
>> on it?  If the latter, would it be terribly difficult for someone like 
>> myself to draft up a patch for it?
>>


Go ahead and file a bug.  It's just oversight, or lack of use-cases 
needing these things.

Also missing: a way to compile a function whose *name* is given by a 
Unicode string.  Until Edition 3 of ECMA-262, that wasn't possible to do 
declaratively in the language.

/be

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