A way to programmatically generate a string literal (is that even the right word)?

fcarney

I am trying to understand if there is a simpler way of converting from utf32 to utf16 as used in QML strings (I think). I am playing with some code used to calculate the surrogates of emojis:

import QtQuick 2.12
import QtQuick.Window 2.12

Window {
    id: window

    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480

    // from utf32 to utf16
    // https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/unicode_encodings.html#surrogates
    function surrogate(input){
        var output
        if(input < 0x10000 || input > 0x10FFFF){
            return output
        }

        var code = input - 0x10000
        var low = 0xD800 | (code >> 10)
        var high = 0xDC00 | (code & 0x3FF)
        output = String.fromCharCode(low) + String.fromCharCode(high)

        return output
    }

    function fromutf32(input){
        return "\\u{%1}".arg(input.toString(16))
    }

    title: qsTr("Font Testing 😀 %1 %2 %3").arg(surrogate(0x1F4A9)).arg("\u{1F4A9}").arg(fromutf32(0x1F4A9))
}

I know I could drop down to c++ for this and just use the functions there. I just find it interesting that all the emoji references provide numbers in utf32 (I think). I wanted a direct way to use these integers in my QML code. That was why I found and used that surrogate function. I also am trying to see if I can create the string that allows me to directly use the code in my code:

"\u{1F4A9}"

However I cannot figure out how to programmatically convert a string like from my fromutf32 function to the actual string produced if I type it out in a string constant. I tried eval, unescape, and String.raw. I just am not seeing a way to do this. So maybe the surrogate function is the best way to do this. Or like I said before, I should be dropping to c++ for this.

fcarney

Well I haven't found a way to generate a string literal, but I did find this interesting function of String:

String.fromCodePoint(0x1F4A9)

It seems to take a utf32 integer and produce the appropriate utf16.