Better Unicode Support
Explore how ES6 improves Unicode support for JavaScript strings. Understand new methods like codePointAt and the use of for-of loops to handle multi-byte characters effectively. This lesson helps you process Unicode characters accurately and write more reliable string manipulation code.
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ES5 handles string operations in two-byte chunks. As a result, handling Unicode strings with a mixture of two and four byte long codes often gets confusing. Characters of Unicode strings were often not printable on their own, and in general, any string operation required extra care.
We still calculate the length of a string by dividing the number of bytes allocated by a string by two. However, there are some updates in ES6 that ...