For the specific examples you have there, simply putting the strings through textDecode(<string>, "utf-8") will give you your emoji back.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:34 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > On 23 Jan 2019, at 2:15 pm, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode < > use-livecode@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
