[dang]

Ok, we've put Man Facepalming with Light Skin Tone back up there. I failed to find a way to avoid it.

Is there a way to represent this string with escaped codepoints? It would be both amusing and in HN's plaintext spirit to do it that way in the title above, but my Unicode is weak.

[NobodyNada]

That would be "\U0001F926\U0001F3FC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" in Python's syntax, or "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}" in Rust or JavaScript.

Might be a little long for a title :)

[dang]

Thanks! Your second option is almost identical to Mlller's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988801) but the extra curly braces make it not fit. Seems like they're droppable for characters below U+FFFF, so I've squeezed it in above.

[NobodyNada]

That works! (The braces are droppable for 16-bit codepoints in JS, but required in Rust.)

[Mlller]

That would be …

  "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7

… for Javascript.

[dang]

I can actually fit that within HN's 80 char limit without having to drop the "(2019)" bit at the end, so let's give it a try and see what happens... thanks!

[wonger_]

An incredible retitle