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The ECMAScript (edition 2) reserves the char keyword for future use. This suggests some additional C-like functionality may be added in the future. A char may be represented by a byte. However in JavaScript, characters are really double-byte values since they encode a Unicode code point in each character.
This keyword also represents a Java data type and the char keyword allows for the potential extension of JavaScript interfaces to access Java applet parameters and return values.
| See also: | byte, java.lang.Character, LiveConnect, Reserved word |
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