JavaScript Unicode normalization

Question

I\'m under the impression that JavaScript interpreter assumes that the source code it is interpreting has already been normalized. What, exactly does the normalizing? It can

Answer 1

ECMAScript 6 introduces String.prototype.normalize() which takes care of Unicode normalization for you.

unorm is a JavaScript polyfill for this method, so that you can already use String.prototype.normalize() today even though not a single engine supports it natively at the moment.

For more information on how and when to use Unicode normalization in JavaScript, see JavaScript has a Unicode problem – Accounting for lookalikes.