I need to build an emoji, I was using `Char.toChars(0x1F1E6 - 0x41 + ‘A’.code).concatToString()` to ...

# multiplatform

[Philip Dukhov]

I need to build an emoji, I was using Char.toChars(0x1F1E6 - 0x41 + ‘A’.code).concatToString() to get 🇦 emoji (and then build a country flag of two such letters).

But now toChars marked deprecated. I checked out https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/04/kotlin-1-5-0-rc-released, and I can’t seem to find the replacement. What am I missing?

[Paul Woitaschek]

Why don't you just paste the emoji?

[louiscad]

I guess he doesn't want to hardcode all countries' emojis

[Paul Woitaschek]

How is that above less hardcoded?

[Paul Woitaschek]

Ah yeah got it, nvm 🙈

[ephemient]

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/to-chars.html doesn't say anything about deprecation, hmm.

[Ben Woodworth]

int.toChar() is definitely deprecated, but not Char.toChars(codepoint)

[shaktiman_droid]

It got deprecated recently but feels like a mistake as there is no new alternative in 1.5

[ephemient]

@Suppress("DEPRECATION") doesn't mean it's deprecated, it means there's no warnings if it uses deprecated functions (looks like Int.toChar is deprecated)

[Philip Dukhov]

Ah, I got confused by the word and haven’t noticed that it’s Suppress 😁