Charset

Golang package to limit the number of bytes per character in a string.

Why?

Because MySQL has multiple unicode support and behind the utf8 character set, it uses a maximum of three bytes per character. This charset contains only BMP characters. An other, named utf8mb4 uses a maximum of four bytes per character and supports supplementary characters. This package provides method to limit the number of bytes per character in a utf8 string.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html

Installation

$ go get -u github.com/rvflash/charset

Usage

import "github.com/rvflash/charset"
// ...
s := charset.FormatUtf8("Warning: ⚠ 1 minute left ⌚ before boom 💥 ➡ click on the button !")
fmt.Println(s)
// Output: Warning: ⚠ 1 minute left ⌚ before boom  ➡ click on the button !