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
}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
}
Dwain Maralack 
UTF-8 perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Probably not specific to Golang 🙂
What were you working on that led to this, Dwain?
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I meant UTF-8 but this was titled for my question as some times people do weird things 🙂 and you’re right not specific to Go 😂.
I played around with some sample code as I learn more about Go.
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