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Text and emoji extraction from HTML

I need to perform text and emoji extraction from HTML (I have no control over the HTML I get). I found it fairly simple to remove HTML tags using the following function; however, it strips out the emojis embedded within an <img> tag. The result should be plain text + emoji characters. I don’t care…

Correct way of converting unicode to emoji

I’m using String.formCodePoint to convert Unicode to emoji, but some emojis don’t convert as expected. They display like line icons. Please check the example below, first two emojis render correctly, but the last two don’t. for example: Result: Answer Your code is not correct. Old Emoji are …

How can I split a string containing emoji into an array?

I want to take a string of emoji and do something with the individual characters. In JavaScript “😴😄😃⛔🎠🚓🚇”.length == 13 because “⛔” length is 1, the rest are 2. So we can’t do Answer The Grapheme Splitter library by Orlin Georgiev is pretty amazing. Although it hasn’t been u…