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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

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

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

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 2 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

See the neighbouring comment

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