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How to add image icon on the left of Github Repository' description

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I want to add this 🌀 icon to my project, but it says:

Error saving your changes: Description contains unicode characters above 0xffff

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I want to make my repository's description like this:

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Means it has an image on the left of description.

How to do this?

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Khuong Avatar asked May 15 '16 17:05

Khuong


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1 Answers

I change my description like this:

:cyclone: A self-taught project to learn Swift.

and it work now.

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Khuong Avatar answered Oct 19 '22 23:10

Khuong