Volker / Jan / Tamás & Peter -- thank you all for your replies. On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:16, peterGo <go.peter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jamie, > > This is a question about Unicode: > > The Unicode Consortium: http://unicode.org/ > > The Unicode Standard: http://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html > > Unicode Frequently Asked Questions: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: > http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html > > Briefly, a Unicode code point is 24 bits. The nearest common hardware > equivalent is 32 bits. Go uses type int32. Go uses an alias of type rune to > distinguish code points from integers. > > A Unicode transformation format (UTF) is an algorithmic mapping from every > Unicode code point to a unique byte sequence. Go favors UTF-8. > > In Go, single quotes enclose a rune (32 bit) literal, double quotes > enclose a UTF-8 encoded string (one to four byte) literal. > > Peter > > On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 6:14:41 PM UTC-5, Jamie Caldwell wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'd be grateful if someone could please explain why you would use >> >> r := '⌘' >> >> Instead of >> >> s := "⌘" / s:= `⌘` >> >> All use three bytes ...? >> >> Thank you, >> Jamie. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/-bvJLkhX_dY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
