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JavaScript strings outside of the BMP

August 2, 2023 by Tarik

Depends what you mean by ‘support’. You can certainly put non-UCS-2 characters in a JS string using surrogates, and browsers will display them if they can. But, each item in a JS string is a separate UTF-16 code unit. There is no language-level support for handling full characters: all the standard String members (length, split, … Read more

What are the most common non-BMP Unicode characters in actual use? [closed]

December 20, 2022 by Tarik

Emoji are now the most common non-BMP characters by far. 😂, otherwise known as U+1F602 FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY, is the most common one on Twitter’s public stream. It occurs more frequently than the tilde!