Unicode Characters In Strings

Notice the 🍇 in the line 7 of the program. Do you think this program will compile and run?

using System;

class MainClass
{
  public static void Main ()
  {
      Console.WriteLine("I like 🍇");
  }
}

Try running this program in your IDE.

Did it work?

You can use emoji in your strings. It is because unlike C and C++, C# strings are Unicode characters.

These lines are valid code.

Console.WriteLine("🍔 🍟");
Console.WriteLine("I ❤️  reading 📚.");
Console.Write("I am from 🇵🇰 \n");

You can also write text in languages other than English.

Console.WriteLine("اِنَّا لِلّٰہِ وَاِنَّآ اِلَیْہِ رَاجِعُوْنَ"); // Arabic
Console.Write("یہ تو ہوگا!"); // Urdu

Remember, C# strings are Unicode characters.

What is Unicode?

We will learn Unicode in detail later. For now, you only need to understand you can use C# strings to write emoji and text in any language of the world.

Exercise 1

Will this code compile and run? Do not use IDE to answer this question.

string name = "محمد طلحہ منضور";
Console.WriteLine(name);