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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by nurettin on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:04AM (#13836521)
How does Ruby struggle with unicode?
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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by lucaspiller on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:20AM (#13836768)
This is from a couple of weeks ago, there's a few things broken still, but what languages do have full support out of the box?

http://blog.honeybadger.io/ruby-s-unicode-support/

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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by slobotron on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:45AM (#13836842)
Perl6 https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by paulddraper on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:20AM (#13837361)
Swift
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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by Immortalin on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:40AM (#13837009)
Go
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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by Sean1708 on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:31AM (#13837411)
Doesn't look like Go does: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14820
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Re:Emoji.length == 2 by paulddraper on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:30AM (#13838074)
Well, for one, I can't even write a portable unicode string literal.

> "\xAA".split ''

That works on a platform where my platform is UTF-32, but not one where it is UTF-8.

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