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freginold
freginold

Reputation: 3956

Can you use String.fromCodePoint just like String.fromCharCode

I'm still learning JavaScript and practicing with getting input from a keyboard. I just learned about String.fromCodePoint and it seems (to me) to pick up everything that String.fromCharCode does.

Is String.fromCodePoint supported widespread by browsers and devices and if so, does it make String.fromCharCode obsolete, or is there a reason you would use String.fromCharCode instead sometimes?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 8171

Answers (3)

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318182

String.fromCodePoint is not widely supported, in fact it's not supported at all in Internet Explorer and Safari, and only in Chrome 41 and up, and Firefox 29 and up.

This doesn't mean it's obsolete, it means it's a new method, only first defined in ES2015.
It also means that browser support will get better in time, as browsers implement all the new features in the 6th edition of ECMAScript.

For now, it's not very suitable for production use if you need to support all current browsers, but there is a polyfill available on MDN if you really need to have this method available in all browsers.

Upvotes: 4

CoderPi
CoderPi

Reputation: 13211

fromCharCode is not obsolete yet, but it would be if it would be supported by all Browsers. However fromCharCode is about twice as fast as fromCodePoint

  • String.fromCodePoint() Not supported by Internet Explorer and Safari

  • String.fromCharCode() Supported since for ever, double as fast

  • The difference:

    Although most common Unicode values can be represented with one 16-bit number (as expected early on during JavaScript standardization) and fromCharCode() can be used to return a single character for the most common values (i.e., UCS-2 values which are the subset of UTF-16 with the most common characters), in order to deal with ALL legal Unicode values (up to 21 bits), fromCharCode() alone is inadequate. Since the higher code point characters use two (lower value) "surrogate" numbers to form a single character, String.fromCodePoint() (part of the ES6 draft) can be used to return such a pair and thus adequately represent these higher valued characters.

Upvotes: 23

Henry Zou
Henry Zou

Reputation: 1917

String.fromCharCode is supported on all browsers:
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String.fromCodePoint has limited browser support:
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Upvotes: 6

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