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Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dabu@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if it has anything to do with alphabetical order... No, that's not it

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that "alphabet" has no relation to the things on that string.

But yeah, it's the Unicode Consortium that knows something about it, not Swift.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That emoji is also really just some letters is it not? So it probably is alphabetical.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but it isn't just :chicken: or something like you'd see in Discord. It's unicode, so it's actually U+1F414. Egg is U+1F95A.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And indeed 1F414 is a lower (hexadecimal) number than 1F95A, so in the absence of other criteria I'm sure in most systems it would sort first.

They might not know the name for the extension of alphabetical order to all characters in Unicode (and neither do I) but it's logical to associate it with alphabetical since it's similar in concept.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Im just gonna believe those are the correct codes. Thanks for the confirmation :)

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on how you define "letter", but they are definitively not alphabetical. They are ideographs.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

See the neighbouring comment

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe try adding 🐣, 🐥, 🐤 and 🍗 to the array and see if it still has the correct order.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't even be surprised if the Unicode consortium had put those in the correct order – as an Easter egg.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Evolution turned out wildly different in an alternate universe where E comes before C except after I