Define UChar as char16_t

We used to have UChar defined as uint16_t which does not go along
with STL these days if you try to have an std::basic_string<> of it,
as there are no standard std::char_traits<> specialization for uint16_t.

This switches UChar to char16_t where practical, introducing a few
compatibility shims to keep CL size small, as (1) this would likely
have to be back-ported and (2) crdtp extensively uses uint16_t for
wide chars.

Bug: b:296390693
Change-Id: I66a32d8f0050915225b187de56896c26dd76163d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/4789966
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Sevcik <jarin@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Jaroslav Sevcik <jarin@chromium.org>
Auto-Submit: Andrey Kosyakov <caseq@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#89559}
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://v8.dev/docs

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned at v8.dev/docs/contribute.