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JavaScript Build a Simple Dynamic Site with Node.js Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js A Simple Merge Utility

Posted by Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Points

utf-8

is utf-8 only for english? what about weird foriegn countries that are obstruse and exotic, is that in utf8 too?

index.js 
var utilities = require("./utilities");

var mailValues = {};

mailValues.first_name = "Janet";

var emailTemplate = "Hi %first_name%! Thanks for completing this code challenge :)";

var mergedContent = utilities.merge(emailTemplate, mailValues);

//mergedContent === "Hi Janet! Thanks for completing this code challenge :)";
utilities.js 
function merge(content, values) {

  return content;
}


module.exports.merge = merge;

1 Answer

Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Hi Thomas,

There's nothing weird about foreign countries or their languages, and in fact, being a web developer means that we have to make sure our programs can handle more than just English (or our own native language).

UTF-8 is an character encoding that is capable of containing all possible characters for languages on Earth (it has 1,112,064 end-points, or possible spaces to store characters, minus a few), and is the dominant encoding of the web today. As such, you should always use UTF-8 wherever possible (except maybe in a few edge cases) when dealing with languages and user input.