On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 09:57 AM, Gianguido SorĂ wrote: > > I'm writing a small utility which uses a strings.Replacer to process > some substitutions in some strings; these strings contains UTF-8 > characters as well as emojis.> > Here you can find a playground with an example: > https://play.golang.org/p/gdfZ_zGGiO> > As you can see from the playground, the occurrence of "2" has been > replaced with the string "altered" into the emoji itself, even though > the hex representation of it is not directly listed in the Replacer.> > What could I do to prevent this from happening?
At first glance this looks like a bug in strings.Replacer. If the string you are replacing is a single byte character then NewReplacer uses a byteStringReplacer which treats the target as a byte array. I suggest opening an issue here https://github.com/golang/go/issues Ian -- 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.