```js foo.length; // 2 Array.from(foo).length // 1 bar.length; // 2 Array.from(bar).length // 2 ```
I know already everything you wrote ... now, how to explain to JS users out there and how to solve? On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/1/15 6:56 PM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > >> Why is that >> > > Because those are different things. The first is a single Unicode > character that happens to be represented by 2 UTF-16 code units. The > second is a pair of Unicode characters that are each represented by one > UTF-16 code unit, but also happen to form a single grapheme cluster > (because one of them is a combining character). To complicate things > further, there is also a single Unicode character that represents that same > grapheme cluster.... > > String length shows the number of UTF-16 code units. > > Array.from works on Unicode characters. That explains the foo.length and > Array.from(foo).length results. > > and how to solve? >> > > Can you clearly explain what problem you are trying to solve? > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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