I expect to be able to add an attribute to String.prototype that returns the
number of codePoints of the string to reflect the actual number of characters
instead of the code unit.
Definition of String.prototype.length
This property returns the number of code units in the string. UTF-16, the
string format used by JavaScript, uses a single 16-bit code unit to represent
the most common characters, but needs to use two code units for less
commonly-used characters, so it's possible for the value returned by length to
not match the actual number of characters in the string.
We refer to the String class in Java
The String class in the Java JVM uses UTF-16 encoding.
String.length(): The method returns the number of characters in char in the
string;
String.codePointCount(): The method returns the number of codewords in the
string.
I want the ECMA organization to be able to add a property or method to
String.prototype that returns the value of the codePoint of the string. For
example: String.prototype.codePointCount can return the actual number of
codePoints instead of code unit.
```
const str1 = ‘1111’;
str1.length; // 4
str1.codePointCount; // 4
// ‘1’.codePointAt(0) // 49
const str2 = '𠮷𠮷𠮷𠮷’;
str2.length; // 8
str2.codePointCount; // 4
// '𠮷'.codePointAt(0); // 134071
const str3 = ‘😯😯😯😯’;
str3.length; // 8
str3.codePointCount; // 4
// '😯'.codePointAt(0); // 128559
```
I believe that most developers need such a method and property to get the
number of codePoints in a string. I sincerely hope that you can accept my
proposal, thanks.
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