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multibyte

v1.0.4

Published

Unicode-aware string functions

Downloads

138

Readme

multibyte

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multibyte provides common string functions that respect multibyte Unicode characters.

npm install multibyte

The problem and the solution

On one hand, JavaScript strings use UTF-16 encoding, and on the other hand, JavaScript strings behave like an Array of code points. Unicode characters that take more than 2 bytes (like newer emoji) get split into 2 code points in many situations.

If you display Unicode text from a UTF-8 source, you need these multibyte functions that take advantage of the fact that Array.from(string) is Unicode safe.

import {
  charAt,
  codePointAt,
  length,
  slice,
  split,
  truncateBytes,
} from 'multibyte';

// JavaScript String.prototype.charAt() can return a UTF-16 surrogate
'a🚀c'.charAt(1); //  ❌ "\ud83d" (half a rocket)
charAt('a🚀c', 1); // ✅ "🚀"

// JavaScript String.prototype.codePointAt() can return a UTF-16 surrogate
'🚀abc'.codePointAt(1); //  ❌ 56960 (surrogate pair of rocket emoji)
codePointAt('🚀abc', 1); // ✅ 97 (the letter a)

// JavaScript returns length in UTF-16, not Unicode characters
'a🚀c'.length; //  ❌ 4
length('a🚀c'); // ✅ 3

// JavaScript slices along UTF-16 boundaries, not Unicode characters
'a🚀cdef'.slice(2, 3); //  ❌ "\ude80" (half a rocket)
slice('a🚀cdef', 2, 3); // ✅ "c"

// JavaScript splits along UTF-16 boundaries, not Unicode characters
'a🚀c'.split(''); //  ❌ ["a", "\ud83d", "\ude80", "c"]
split('a🚀c', ''); // ✅ ["a", "🚀", "c"] ✅

// JavaScript slices strings along UTF-16 boundaries, not Unicode characters
'a🚀cdef'.slice(0, 2); //       ❌ "a\ud83d" (half a rocket)
truncateBytes('a🚀cdef', 2); // ✅ "a" (including the rocket would be 3 total bytes)

BOM (Byte order mark) - U+FEFF

Under the hood, all these functions strip a leading BOM if present.