Unicode and JavaScriptUpdate 2013-09-29: New sections 4.1 (“Matching any code unit”) and 4.2 (“Libraries”). This blog post is a brief introduction to Unicode and how it is handled in JavaScript. History Unicode was started in 1987, by Joe Becker (Xerox), Lee Collins (Apple) and Mark Davis (Apple). The idea was to create a universal character set, as there were many incompatible standards for encoding plain text at that
