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Tag: emoji

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 much about spaces, but the

How to prevent ✳ symbol converting to emoji

I have a problem where my ✳ (Eight-Spoked Asterisk) symbol is converting to emoji on iOS/android devices.. https://hotemoji.com/eight-spoked-asterisk-emoji.html#:~:text=%E2%9C%B3%EF%B8%8F%20Meaning%20%E2%80%93%20Eight%2DSpoked%20Asterisk,a%20list%20as%20bullet%20points. Can somebody help me on what to do to prevent convertion of normal symbol ✳ to emoji asterisk! I am working with react/typescript. Example: I want 1234 ✳✳✳✳ ✳✳✳✳ 5678 – this is fine on desktop I dont want 1234 1234 ✳️✳️✳️✳️

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 not coloured by default, so you need to add the variation code ‘fe0f`.

Remove last char string when string contains emojis

I’m using React Native (chat), in this app I have one emoji picker but when users press virtual backspace button emojis only remove their last unicode byte. How can I detect if last ‘chat’ (set of unicodes) is standalone emoji unicode? Code to split it: I also tried to use Array.from(), then use slice(0,-1) and correct solutions to all cases

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 updated in a while and presently (Sep 2020) it only supports Unicode

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