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

I've updated @bobince 's answer:

var cafe4= 'caf\u00E9';
var cafe5= 'cafe\u0301';


console.log (
  cafe4+' '+cafe4.length,                  // café 4
  cafe5+' '+cafe5.length,                  // café 5
  cafe4 === cafe5,                         // false
  cafe4.normalize() === cafe5.normalize()  // true
);