VOvog·Jun 3, 2017Submission
Base-emoji: Output a buffer in emojis
2 points · Open discussionpfrazee
base-emoji
JavaScript2017–2017
pfrazee / base-emoji
base-emoji
Output a buffer (0xdeadbeef) in emojis (:snowflake::panda_face::police_car::tongue:)
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Output a buffer (0xdeadbeef) in emojis (:snowflake::panda_face::police_car::tongue:)
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| Mar 6 | 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 13 | 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 20 | 2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27 | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 3 | 2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10 | 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 17 | 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24 | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 8 | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 15 | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 22 | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 29 | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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3 sourcesYeah but what you really want is base-emoji. https://github.com/pfrazee/base-emoji
In Base65536 encoding> That's indeed right. B85 is already a little more efficient than B64, but was wondering if one could abuse Unicode for this.
Sure, kinda: https://github.com/pfrazee/base-emoji (it's a base256 using emoji), but then you still need to encode that text, which is going to require 4 bytes per symbol, so I'm not sure you're going to get any actual gain over B64/B85 in the end. There's also the option of using a subset of the U+0100~U+07FF range (though it contains a diacticial block which may not be ideal) as it encodes to 2 bytes in both UTF-8 and UTF-16 (though there are diacritics in these blocks, and some of the codepoints are reserved but not allocated so…).
In A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode