> What you’re seeing there is not normalization, but rather the string iterator that automatically accounts for surrogate pairs (treating them as a single unit).
```js var foo = '𝐀'; var bar = 'Й'; foo.length; // 2 Array.from(foo).length // 1 bar.length; // 2 Array.from(foo).length // 2 ``` I think this is strange. How to safely work with strings? 2015-04-01 22:17 GMT+03:00 Alexander Guinness <[email protected]>: > My reasoning is based on the following example: > > ```js > var text = '𝐀'; > > text.length; // 2 > > Array.from(text).length // 1 > ``` > > 2015-04-01 22:05 GMT+03:00 Rick Waldron <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM monolithed <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ```js >>> var text = 'ЙйЁё'; >>> >>> text.split(''); // ["И", "̆", "и", "̆", "Е", "̈", "е", "̈"] >>> ``` >>> >>> Possible solutions: >>> >>> 1. >>> >>> ```js >>> text.normalize().split('') // ["Й", "й", "Ё", "ё"] >>> ``` >>> >>> I like it, but is no so comfortable >>> >>> 2. >>> >>> ```js >>> Array.from(text) // ["И", "̆", "и", "̆", "Е", "̈", "е", "̈"] >>> ``` >>> >>> 3. >>> >>> ```js >>> [...text] // ["И", "̆", "и", "̆", "Е", "̈", "е", "̈"] >>> ``` >>> >>> >>> Should the `Array.from` and `...text` work as the first example and why? >>> >> >> Why would they imply calling `normalize()`? What if that wasn't desired? >> >> Since #1 calls normalize before split(), the actual equivalents would >> look like this: >> >> Array.from(text.normalize()) // [ "Й", "й", "Ё", "ё" ] >> [...text.normalize()] // [ "Й", "й", "Ё", "ё" ] >> >> Rick >> > >
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