Fun with Unicode

[Charles Dye]

This will work in a Take Command tab window, but not in a standalone console window:

function smiley=`%@if[%1. ge 0 .and. %1. le 79,%@char[0xd83d %@eval[0xde00 + %1]],%@char[0xd83d 0xde00]]`

Pass it a number from 0 to 79:

 

[samintz]

When I run in TakeCommand, I get this output:

When I run in the new Windows Terminal Preview:

And from a normal console it doesn't work regardless of which font I select.

 

[Charles Dye]

Yeah, the console doesn't know anything about surrogate pairs. Technically I suppose the Windows console is using UCS-2, not UTF-16. But when you scrape those words out of the console buffer and pass them on to UTF-16-aware APIs, sometimes interesting stuff happens.