use-livecode Digest, Vol 222, Issue 27

[Alan Stenhouse]

Yes, you should textencode() to UTF when storing and textdecode() when reading - at least doing that on mobile worked for me.

cheers

Alan

> On 19 Mar 2022, at 8:01 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
> On 3/18/2022 12:18 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote:
>> I can't be the first to bring this up, so sorry if this has been asked already...
>> 
>> Is there a current solution for Emojis in text?  On a mobile device, in a native field, a user enters a emoji (no method to stop them that I can find).  I save that text somewhere like a database.  When I load it back (into a LC field for display), it appears as a question mark.   What up?   Anyone have knowledge on this topic?   Is there a useEmojis property I don't know about?
>> 
> 
> It probably depends on 2 things:
> 
> 1) If the app the Emojis are created in is creating them as Unicode 
> Emojis or as images. If they are created as images, then they are 
> probably not getting transferred to the database correctly. If they are 
> Unicode, also make sure they are not being lost in the upload to the 
> database - the database encoding needs to support some Unicode encoding 
> like UFT8
> 
> 2) If the database has the correct data, then when loading it into a 
> LiveCode field you probably need to textDecode (see dictionary) the data 
> from UTF8 to LiveCode's native (UTF16) text.
> 
> See https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html as well