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jtymann on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emoji.length == 2

Makes me wonder whether or not that should be considered a bug.

Manishearth on March 9, 2017 [–]

I'm sure all browser designers out there would love it if we could switch JS over to UTF8, or in general have any system where JS uses a well formed encoding when it comes to unicode. We can't, because of backwards compatability.

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