JavaScript strings - UTF-16 vs UCS-2?

Question

I\'ve read in some places that JavaScript strings are UTF-16, and in other places they\'re UCS-2. I did some searching around to try to figure out the difference and found t

Answer 1

Its just a 16-bit value with no encoding specified in the ECMAScript standard.

See section 7.8.4 String Literals in this document: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf