How to use five digit long Unicode characters in JavaScript

Question

In JavaScript I can do this:

foo = \"\\u2669\" // 1/4 note

But I can\'t do this

foo = \"\\u1D15D\" // full note  -five hex digi         


        

Answer 1

Nowadays, you can simply use String.fromCodePoint(), as documented in MDN. For instance:

> String.fromCodePoint(0x1f0a1)
"