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🏻 EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2 (U+1F3FB)Īttempting to initialize a Unicode.Scalar valueįrom a string literal with this character.

However, not all entries are valid Unicode scalar literals.Ĭonsisting of four individual code points: So you can copy-paste any character into a string literal Swift source code fully supports Unicode, The first line of the copied character information is the character itself. Let’s take a look at what all of this meansĪnd how to use it in Swift code: Character Literal To copy the information found in the inspector. Copying Character InformationĬhoose “Copy Character Info” from the shortcut menu The inspector may also show alternate glyph renderingsĪs well as related characters, as applicable.

The character name, code point, and UTF-8 encoding. With a larger, isolated rendering of the character, Selecting a character populates the inspector pane on the right That make it easier to browse through the characters in that collection. The center column displays a grid of characters. Like Emoji, Latin, Punctuation, and Bullets/Stars. Your favorite and frequently-used characters,Īs well as a customizable list of named categories The sidebar on the left provides quick access to

Let’s take a quick tour of Character ViewerĪnd see what it can do for us: A Quick Tour of Character Viewer You’ll be using Character Viewer frequently. Go ahead and memorize the global shortcut if you haven’t already: This opens a panel that looks something like this:Īnd found it to be a convenient alternative to searching for Emoji online. (tellingly renamed from “Special Characters” in OS X Mavericks). That will prove essential for developers in today’s linguistic landscape:Īnd find an item at the very bottom called “Emoji & Symbols” We’ll be looking at a relatively obscure part of macOS Text is presumed international until proven otherwise.Ĭolorful harbingers of societal collapse, The lingua franca of these troubled times, Or at least they could feel reasonably assured thatĮverything would fall within the Basic Multilingual Plane -įitting comfortably into a single UTF-16 code unit. User-input would be primarily Latin-1-compatible. Many developers operated under the assumption that

To make Americans care about internationalization. Emoji is a conspiracy by the Unicode® Consortium