**Nate Cull** @natecull · Apr 12, 2018, 02:21

**Nate Cull** @natecull · Apr 12, 2018, 02:21

Nate Cull @natecull

Welp.

I was loving the Parsimmon Javascript library for parsing Chinese until I smacked head first into the character 𠂊, \u2008a

Parsimmon does not understand the concept that Unicode characters exist outside the Basic Multilingual Planes.

(Aliens Newt voice)

but they do

**Nate Cull** @natecull · Apr 12, 2018, 02:50

**Nate Cull** @natecull · Apr 12, 2018, 02:50

Ah, I guess now is when I have to learn how to construct surrogate pairs.

**browneyedgirl ☕️** @browneyedgirl@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 03:55

**browneyedgirl ☕️** @browneyedgirl@octodon.social · Apr 12, 2018, 03:55

@natecull You are not making me miss my old unicode days...

**Nate Cull** @natecull · 2018-04-12T07:28:11Z

Nate Cull @natecull

@browneyedgirl It is kind of fun!

A huge sprawling database constructed by multiple projects spread across multiple languages all with different ideas about what even a 'character' is...

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**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Apr 12, 2018, 09:57

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Apr 12, 2018, 09:57

@natecull @browneyedgirl "kind of" ... on the right kind of day, I guess. :-)