How many bytes are emoji characters in GO?

~1 min read January 17, 2020

It takes 4 bytes for each emoji character and 1 byte for every ASCII character.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	a := []byte("😂")
	fmt.Println(len(a))
	// prints 4

	b := []byte("H")
	fmt.Println(len(b))
	// prints 1

}