Why is “❨╯°□°❩╯︵┻━┻” with such an encoding used for a method name?

Question

I came across following method in sidekiq gem. Its just invoked from test_sidekiq.rb.

def self.❨╯°□°❩╯︵┻━┻
  puts \"Calm down, bro\"
end

This i

Answer 1

Looking at the commit that introduced it seems to be some funny sort way to make sure the file is encoded in UTF-8

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/commit/c1127165f8157807e7855c60f9849d20fb9fec24