Emojis in instagram text break things

[domani-cclark]

Awesome plugin! The only issue I encountered was with emojis in the insta-text. This would break and wordpress would throw

PHP Warning: htmlspecialchars(): Invalid multibyte sequence in argument

I got around this by running a remove emoji function before saving to the db

function removeEmoji($text) {

    $clean_text = "";

    // Match Emoticons
    $regexEmoticons = '/[\x{1F600}-\x{1F64F}]/u';
    $clean_text = preg_replace($regexEmoticons, '', $text);

    // Match Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
    $regexSymbols = '/[\x{1F300}-\x{1F5FF}]/u';
    $clean_text = preg_replace($regexSymbols, '', $clean_text);

    // Match Transport And Map Symbols
    $regexTransport = '/[\x{1F680}-\x{1F6FF}]/u';
    $clean_text = preg_replace($regexTransport, '', $clean_text);

    return $clean_text;
}

I would definitely recommend implementing into the plugin!

[jtsternberg]

Interesting.. I'm not sure why'd you be receiving this error since we're not using the htmlspecialchars function anywhere.

[domani-cclark]

The plugin isn't throwing the error, rather WP throws it whenever it tries to display the content as it runs htmlspecialchars and doesn't recognize the characters. To avoid this we stripped out the emoji characters before saving to the DB.

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Interesting.. I'm not sure why'd you be receiving this error since we're not using the function anywhere.

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[baptistebriel]

Hi,

A came across the same issue, but here the emojis are replaced by a question mark ? Any ideas how I could remove them from the title & excerpt?

Thanks!

[jtsternberg]

This is old, so I'm closing. Re-open if you are still having issues.