Wait, what?
❤️ is an emoji, so it is built up from surrogate pairs, right?
NOPE! Turns out it consists of U+2764 (plain ❤ symbol) and U+FE0F (Variation Selector 16)
This is why you should use Intl.Segmenter() and just deal with its abysmal performance 😭
#javascript #unicode #fml
Peter Kröner
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2024-11-26 08:40:41 UTC
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2024-11-26 08:40:41 UTCEvent JSON
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