Good advice. So what do you think about WTF8? Um, okay. I'm just gonna assume that people in here might not all be familiar with that. If you want to know what that is, then look it up. I think that, typically, you want standard WTF8, and you want the standard validation that, for example, a text decoder gives you. And like, just stick with that because that's the most standardized thing you can get. Obviously, it's a variant of WTF8 that handles these code points outside the 65,000 range a bit differently. Not better, but differently. And I don't know. There are use cases for it, but if you don't have a good reason for using it, then don't.
And which one is the most recommended encoding format right now? WTF8. That's very simple. Sorry. No, yeah. There's a good reason why it's the default encoding for, like, basically every JavaScript API that exists. Cool.
Um, what is the safest way to truncate a string after 15 characters, adding ...at the end? Yeah, the safest way is also the most laborious way of doing this, I guess. What I would do, what I have done in the past when running into this problem, is to use the CodePointAdd API that I mentioned in an earlier question to check whether the 14th character, in that case of the string, is a double byte character, and then adjusting the index where you cut off at, depending on whether it is one of those, at 14 or 15. And then you can just use StringPrototype, Slice, or Substring, or whatever API you want to use. But yeah, it's not pretty but it is correct and, you know, people might otherwise actually notice that you're just cutting off in the middle of an emoji or something. Cool.
In all Python, Versus will force UTF-8 encoding on top of file. Is there a way to force an encoding in JS? To forge? Force, force. I mean, you can pass an explicit encoding parameter to most JavaScript APIs that do encoding or decoding. TextEncoder, as I mentioned, is one of the exceptions to that because it only supports UTF-8 because you're only supposed to use UTF-8 unless you have a very good reason not to. But otherwise, I mean, Node.js APIs that do encoding or decoding take an explicit parameter and other encodings do as well, yeah.
And what's the fastest way to handle long strings? To do what with? I mean, just do what you would usually do. And then if you're running into performance issues, you can take a look in more detail. But generally speaking, I mean, write in your meta JavaScript like and, you know, trust the engine that it's making smart decisions for you, for the most part. Cool. Nice.
And the last question will be what is the string length of this? And like, how do you define length? I think if you pass this to this string with packages that I mentioned earlier, it might just say for that is the width. And obviously, the other other cases, I can't really answer. Well, thank you very much, Anna.
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