Explores fast binary-to-text encoding using UTF-16 strings as an alternative to base64, with performance benchmarks.
Explains how JavaScript strings are sequences of UTF-16 code units, not visible characters, covering length quirks with emojis.
Explores the potential memory savings of storing strings in a more compact encoding like ASCII/Latin-1 within the .NET CLR, using real-world data from Stack Overflow.
Explores whether JavaScript uses UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding, detailing the differences and implications for handling Unicode characters.
