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Why doesn't this substring work in Chinese? I'm getting the correct results for other languages but in Chinese I got an empty string.

    countryID = "奥地利（销售超过3万5千欧元）";
    countryID.substring(0, countryID.indexOf('(') - 1);

    countryID = "Austria (Sales > €35,000)";
    countryID.substring(0, countryID.indexOf('(') - 1);
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CMartins
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The ( and the chinese （ are different unicode characters. You need to use .indexOf('（') for chinese characters.

Example:

<div id='d1'></div>
<script>
    var countryID = "奥地利（销售超过3万5千欧元）";
    document.getElementById('d1').innerHTML=countryID.indexOf('（');
</script>
pepperjack
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  • can I change my substring and check both types? （ and ( ? – CMartins Nov 20 '17 at 15:46
  • @Carlos Martins take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/273789/is-there-a-version-of-javascripts-string-indexof-that-allows-for-regular-expr – pepperjack Nov 20 '17 at 15:50
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Because '(' is not in countryID, '（' and '(' are different characters, the first is chinese style bracket.

So maybe you can use:

countryID.substring(0, countryID.indexOf('（') - 1);

YAJIE
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  • I can see that in the Chinese version I don't have the white space so I don't need the -1 – CMartins Nov 20 '17 at 15:49
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    Yes, it is. The key thing here is just that you need to pay some attention to some special Chinese symbols when you deal with the Chinese strings. – YAJIE Nov 20 '17 at 15:54