I think the concern on how people seeing what they see can be understood from JS is more than valid ...
```js var foo = '𝐀'; var bar = 'Й'; foo.length; // 2 Array.from(foo).length // 1 bar.length; // 2 Array.from(foo).length // 2 ``` Why is that and how to solve? On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Mathias Bynens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:30 PM, monolithed <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? > > It depends on your use case. FWIW, I’ve outlined some examples here: > https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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