Emoji's not rendering for old (2013) chats?

[JoeSlab]

I want to start by saying this chat parser is really great. I wanted to export some really old chats from 2012-2018 and render them as seen on the phone. Most (but not all) of the emojis in these chats are rendering as a white box with eg E405 E405 is winking face: https://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/5/smileys-people/winking-face I'm using firefox, and the identical winking face emoji from very recent exported chats renders correctly - now I believe the winking face is F609? Is there any way of making these older emojis from older chats render correctly? Many thanks.

[Pustur]

Hi @JoeSlab

I believe that the code for some emojis have changed over the years which results in the problem you're seeing. I don't think this is in any way related to my program but instead how the chat was originally saved.

As for the solution, the only one I can think of would be to do a search and replace whenever you see a missing emoji, but that could take a while. Maybe there are some programs out there for this but I don't know any.

Best of luck in restoring your chat

EDIT: to ensure that it's not my program's fault, could you open the chat txt file and check if the emojis are still broken?

[JoeSlab]

Hi @Pustur

Thank you very much for replying - I read that the emoji codes have changed over the years, but I didn't quite grasp how that make this a hard problem to solve! Yes of course - I should have checked the text file, and as expected all the modern emojis render correctly and the older ones don't - so yes it's definately not the fault of your program. I may try a find and replace, at least for the more popular smileys - thanks for the suggestion. Thanks again for a great piece of software ;-)