The SVGTextContentElement is inherited by various text-related interfaces such as SVGTextElement SVGTSpanElement SVGTRefElement SVGAltGlyphElement and SVGTextPathElement. For the methods on this interface that refer to an index to a character or a number of characters these references are to be interpreted as an index to a UTF-16 code unit or a number of UTF-16 code units respectively. This is for consistency with DOM Level 2 Core where methods on the CharacterData interface use UTF-16 code units as indexes and counts within the character data.Thus for example if the text content of a text element is a single non-BMP character such as U10000 then invoking getNumberOfChars on that element will return 2 since there are two UTF-16 code unitsthe surrogate pair used to represent that one character....elements, exclusive of stroking, clipping, masking and filter effects)...
