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zlost

How to string format with unicode args

I’m new to elixir and I want to know how to format a string with unicode args

code

IO.puts(:io_lib.format("hello ~10s ~n", ["👻"]))

result

hello       ð» 

expect

hello       👻

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kip

kip

ex_cldr Core Team

According to the docs:

If and only if the Unicode translation modifier is used in the format string (that is, ~ts or ~tc), the resulting list can contain characters beyond the ISO Latin-1 character range (that is, numbers > 255)

I find using the iex h helper very useful in these cases.

iex> h :io_lib.format

Therefore:

iex> IO.puts(:io_lib.format("hello ~10ts ~n", ["👻"]))
hello          👻

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benwilson512

benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

I think you’re sort of over complicating it, you can just interpolate it directly:

iex(2)> ghost = "👻"
"👻"
iex(3)> IO.puts "Hello #{ghost}"
Hello 👻
:ok

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