[swift-users] emoji in source code failed to compile in linux ubuntu
Quinn "The Eskimo!"
eskimo1 at apple.com
Fri Dec 4 05:28:39 CST 2015
On 4 Dec 2015, at 11:12, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> However it looks like the character is being encoded in your file as: ed a0 bd ed b8 80 which I’m not sure where that’s come from.
I can explain that. U+1F603 is encoded in UTF-16 as d83d de03. If you encode each of these separately as UTF-8, you get ed a0 bd followed by ed b8 80. That's not the correct way to encode U+1F603 as UTF-8, hence the failure.
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