Using supplemental Unicode characters as char literals in C#

Question

Is there a way to use supplemental Unicode characters (for example '🃜') as char literals in C#? I tried it in VS 2017, with the source file saved as UTF-8 with BOM, UTF-16 LE and BE and I always get the error Too many characters in character literal.

Answer 1

No, char is one UTF-16 code unit. String is a sequence of UTF-16 code units so if you have a codepoint that UTF-16 encodes as two code units, use a String literal.

"🃜"