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RangeError: argument is not a valid code point

The JavaScript exception "Invalid code point" occurs when NaN values, negative Integers (-1), non-Integers (5.4), or values larger than 0x10FFFF (1114111) are used with String.fromCodePoint().

Message

RangeError: Invalid code point -1 (V8-based)
RangeError: -1 is not a valid code point (Firefox)
RangeError: Arguments contain a value that is out of range of code points (Safari)

Error type

RangeError

What went wrong?

String.fromCodePoint() throws this error when passed NaN values, negative Integers (-1), non-Integers (5.4), or values larger than 0x10FFFF (1114111).

A code point is a value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 0x10FFFF.

Examples

Invalid cases

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String.fromCodePoint("_"); // RangeError
String.fromCodePoint(Infinity); // RangeError
String.fromCodePoint(-1); // RangeError
String.fromCodePoint(3.14); // RangeError
String.fromCodePoint(3e-2); // RangeError
String.fromCodePoint(NaN); // RangeError

Valid cases

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String.fromCodePoint(42); // "*"
String.fromCodePoint(65, 90); // "AZ"
String.fromCodePoint(0x404); // 'Є' (U+0404)
String.fromCodePoint(0x2f804); // '你' (U+2F804)
String.fromCodePoint(194564); // '你'
String.fromCodePoint(0x1d306, 0x61, 0x1d307); // '𝌆a𝌇'

See also

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