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Option for Duktape to use UTF-16 internally

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Many major JavaScript engines use UTF-16, both internally and in their API. This makes it difficult to write a generic abstraction that also works with Duktape, as these engines expose strings through their API as wchar_t* instead of char*. Consider adding an option to use UTF-16 for the internal representation instead of UTF-8.

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Created 6 years ago
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svaaralacommented, Sep 1, 2017

@denisdemaisbr Yes, one solution is to encode/code strings as needed. @fatcerberus’s request was for Duktape to do that automatically (either using an internal representation in UTF-16, or providing an automatic conversion on demand).

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svaaralacommented, Apr 8, 2022

Current approach is to use WTF-8 as internal representation which can be 1:1 mapped to UTF-16 as needed. Closing this one.

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