CHAPTER 3
String Manipulation
As I mentioned in Chapter 1, a JavaScript application is written entirely as a sequence of Unicode characters. This is not at all a feature exclusive to the JavaScript language. Other examples are HTML and CSS, to name just a few. Even the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web is an entirely text-based communications protocol.
Data is often transmitted in the form of text, as it’s highly interoperable. This is due to the fact that all computers have the ability to work with Unicode. One attribute that makes JSON highly interoperable is that it’s composed of, and transmitted simply as, Unicode. For this reason, ...
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