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JavaScript has a Unicode problem ยท Mathias Bynens
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How long is a cucumber? | drew's dev blog
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| | A deep dive into how JavaScript handles Unicode, and what this means for string indexing.
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) @ tonsky.me
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| | Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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Encoding Text, UTF-32 and UTF-16 - How Unicode Works (Part 1) | Greg Tatum
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| | The standard for how to represent human writing for many years was ASCII, or American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This representation reserved 7 bits for encoding a character. This serv
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Unicode Plugin for XRegExp
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| Update: Many of the details described below are now out of date. Get the latest version of the Unicode plugin for XRegExp. I've released a simple plugin for XRegExp (my JavaScript regex library) that adds support for Unicode properties and blocks to JavaScript regular expressions. It uses the Unicode 5.1 character database, which is the...