Store parser errors, source range filenames, source code filenames,
module source, and Rust parser errors as UTF-16 where they flow back
into JavaScript-visible strings. Keep byte-oriented source buffers
byte-backed.
Remove temporary PrimitiveString, ByteString, and UTF-8 detours from
JSON, RegExp, module debug logging, print formatting, and tests.
Produce JS-visible string results as UTF-16 at their source, including
numeric formatting, BigInt and BigFraction formatting, URI encoding,
console formatting, parser errors, regular expression errors, Intl and
Temporal records, LibUnicode locale boundaries, and LibWeb bindings.
Handle fractional radix formatting through the UTF-16 builder view.
Port straightforward JS string construction sites to Utf16StringBuilder.
Make ASCII appends explicit with append_ascii(), and leave byte-output,
formatted-output, and printer plumbing on StringBuilder where that API
still matches the caller.
Add a small checked JS string length product helper. Use it for
String.prototype.repeat() before constructing the repeated result. Keep
the maximum string length policy in LibJS while allowing the UTF-16
builder to remain purpose-built and infallible. Cover overflow from the
final repeated code-unit length in the repeat tests.
This ports the lexer to UTF-16 and deals with the immediate fallout up
to the AST. The AST will be dealt with in upcoming commits.
The lexer will still accept UTF-8 strings as input, and will transcode
them to UTF-16 for lexing. This doesn't actually incur a new allocation,
as we were already converting the input StringView to a ByteString for
each lexer.
One immediate logical benefit here is that we do not need to know off-
hand how many UTF-8 bytes some special code points occupy. They all
happen to be a single UTF-16 code unit. So instead of advancing the
lexer by 3 positions in some cases, we can just always advance by 1.