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JS ⟩ value ⟩ primitive ⟩ String ⟩ Unicode ⟩ character encoding
character encoding transforms code points into code units.
popular encodings are UTF-8arrow-up-right , UTF-16arrow-up-right and UTF-32arrow-up-right .
most JavaScript engines use UTF-16 encoding.
replit ⟩
// code
Eloquent JavaScript ⟩ Strings & Character Codesarrow-up-right
Wikipedia ⟩ Character encodingarrow-up-right
UTF-16 characters, code points, grapheme clustersarrow-up-right
String.prototype ⟩
.charCodeAt()arrow-up-right
.codePointAt()arrow-up-right
Stringarrow-up-right ⟩
.fromCodePoint()arrow-up-right
.fromCharCode()arrow-up-right
Last updated 3 years ago