title: Unicode <input> value appears differently between browsers
body: <p>I'm using jQuery to set a text input's value to a string of unicode chars (it repro's with vanilla js):</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$(function() {  
      var value = "\u0000J\u0000o\u0000a\u0000n\u0000 \u0000J\u0000e\u0000t\u0000t\u0000 \u0000a\u0000n\u0000d\u0000 \u0000T\u0000h\u0000e\u0000 \u0000B\u0000l\u0000a\u0000c\u0000k\u0000h\u0000e\u0000a\u0000r\u0000t\u0000s\u0000";
  
      var $input = $('&lt;input type="text" style="width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;').val(value);
  
      $('body').html($input);
  });</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;html&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;
          &lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;
          &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;/head&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>I've tested against the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and all three behave differently, with Chrome behaving the most desirably:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Chrome 50.0:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/n3jMh.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/n3jMh.png" alt="Chrome"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Safari 9.1.1:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zafiR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zafiR.png" alt="Safari"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Firefox 46.0</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9kpse.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9kpse.png" alt="Firefox"></a></p>