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Ok, we've put Man Facepalming with Light Skin Tone back up there. I failed to find a way to avoid it. Is there a way to represent this string with escaped code

by dang 1y ago

Ok, we've put Man Facepalming with Light Skin Tone back up there. I failed to find a way to avoid it. Is there a way to represent this string with escaped codepoints? It would be both amusing and in HN's plaintext spirit to do it that way in the title above, but my Unicode is weak.

Mlller 1y ago
That would be … "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 … for Javascript.
- dang 1y ago
  I can actually fit that within HN's 80 char limit without having to drop the "(2019)" bit at the end, so let's give it a try and see what happens... thanks!
  - wonger_ 1y ago
    An incredible retitle
NobodyNada 1y ago
That would be "\U0001F926\U0001F3FC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" in Python's syntax, or "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}" in Rust or JavaScript. Might be a little long for a title :)
- dang 1y ago
  Thanks! Your second option is almost identical to Mlller's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988801) but the extra curly braces make it not fit. Seems like they're droppable for characters below U+FFFF, so I've squeezed it in above.
  - NobodyNada 1y ago
    That works! (The braces are droppable for 16-bit codepoints in JS, but required in Rust.)