Dmitri Pavlutin • 8/4/2020

What Actually is a String in JavaScript?

This technical article dives into the JavaScript String type, explaining that strings are sequences of UTF-16 code units rather than simple sequences of visible characters. It details why the `.length` property can return unexpected values (like 2 for a single emoji) and covers concepts like the Basic Multilingual Plane and surrogate pairs.

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#JavaScript #character encoding #String