Hugo fails when parsing some Unicode escape sequences in YAML front matter

[tech4him1]

If a post contains some Unicode escape sequences in YAML front-matter, like this:

description: "\uD83D\uDC68"

which is the code form the Emoji 👨, Hugo errors out while processing that post:

Started building sites ...
ERROR 2017/09/03 14:09:24 failed to parse page metadata for "post\\this-post.md": yaml: line 3: found invalid Unicode character escape code
Error: Error building site: Errors reading pages: Error: failed to parse page metadata for "post\\this-post.md": yaml: line 3: found invalid Unicode character escape code for this-post.md

Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a bug?

[bep]

I very much doubt it is a bug, but if so, you would have to raise an issue here:

https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml

As to emojis, see https://gohugo.io/functions/emojify/

[tech4him1]

@bep Thanks for the quick reply, I really doubted it too. I think I finally found the issue: go-yaml/yaml#279.

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