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// Sample string that represents a combination of small, medium, and large code points.
// This sample string is valid UTF-16.
// 'hello' has code points that are each below 128.
// '⛳' is a single 16-bit code units.
// '❤️' is a two 16-bit code units, U+2764 and U+FE0F (a heart and a variant).
// '🧀' is a 32-bit code point (U+1F9C0), which can also be represented as the surrogate pair of two 16-bit code units '\ud83e\uddc0'.
const validUTF16String = 'hello⛳❤️🧀';

// This will not work. It will print:
// DOMException: Failed to execute 'btoa' on 'Window': The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.
try {
  const validUTF16StringEncoded = btoa(validUTF16String);
  console.log(`Encoded string: [${validUTF16StringEncoded}]`);
} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
}
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