JavaScript strings outside of the BMP

BMP being Basic Multilingual Plane According to JavaScript: the Good Parts: JavaScript was built at a time when Unicode was a 16-bit character set, so all characters in JavaScript are 16 bits wide. This leads me to believe that JavaScript uses UCS-2 (not UTF-16!) and can only handle characters up to U+FFFF. Further investigation confirms this: > String.fromCharCode(0x20001); The fromCharCode metho