string with very special characters causes problemes

Question

I have a string

and I want the get the second character from this string

// with a normal string the result is
var normalString = "abc"
normalString[1] // -> b

// but with this one the reslt is 
var weirdString = ""
weirdString[1] // -> � I get this "replacement charactere" instead of

@ClausBönnhoff I log it in the console -> console.log(weirdString[1]) — SkwalExe, Oct 03 '21 at 08:51

DecPK · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-03T08:51:52.073

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1) You can use spread syntax here to spread string into an array

const weirdStringArr = [...weirdString];

2) Access the UNICODE symbol using index

weirdStringArr[1]

var weirdString = "";
const weirdStringArr = [...weirdString];
console.log(weirdStringArr[1]);

edited Oct 03 '21 at 08:51

answered Oct 03 '21 at 08:51

DecPK

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Anyway it's a dupe - interestingly the dupe is using the same gothic alphabet. – mplungjan Oct 03 '21 at 08:53
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@SkwalDev - The above is sufficient for a lot of use cases, but if the character ("glyph" would be the more accurate word) uses *combining marks*, even the above won't be sufficient because the glyph is made up of multiple unicode code points. Your string doesn't have that problem, but just beware of the possibility. – T.J. Crowder Oct 03 '21 at 08:53

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