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		jcranmer on Oct 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001) The .iterator() method of strings in JS returns code points, not JS characters, so, e.g., Array.from("a") is ["", "a"]. (I use U+1F4A9 for testing all my non-BMP needs)

deathanatos on Oct 13, 2016 [–]

If I've got the right method[1], that appears to have been added in ES6. I'm still getting up to speed there. Not supported on IE, of course.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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