Displaying or identifying emoji

[David V Glasgow]

That’s fantastic! Thanks Ali, very helpful.  Awww.  ‚ù§Ô∏è is a heart!

Thanks again.

> On 24 Jan 2019, at 8:45 am, Ali Lloyd <ali.lloyd at livecode.com> wrote:
> 
> For the specific examples you have there, simply putting the strings through textDecode(<string>, "utf-8") will give you your emoji back.
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:34 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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> > On 23 Jan 2019, at 2:15 pm, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > You say you are importing them? From where? A text file or DB?
> 
> Basically, Stephen, I take what I am given.  
> 
> Could be plain text, Word, HTML , even spreadsheetn- and often I don’t know any intermediate steps between the original chat record (on whatever device and in whatever software was involved), and the final format I receive.  Usually I get a digital record, but the last one I received was a scan of a fax of a Word document.
> 
> I was hoping for easy way to back translate, gobbledegook to emoji ID/code, but it looks like maybe there isn’t one.  
> 
> Thanks to all who chipped in.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David Glasgow
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