Emojis not displayed properly

[tatiang]

Here’s a strange issue that probably not too many people have run across…

I wanted to make a 5-character string filled with random emojis from https://getemoji.com so I tried these blocks:

But they result in this when previewed:

Or other strange renderings where the emojis (there should be 5 red hearts) are displayed strangely:

It’s definitely related to the emoji characters and also to the in text get block because if I replace the emojis with something like text symbols ("!@#$%^&"), it works fine and if I set the label’s text to “” it works fine.

My example above shows a random letter from the string “”. That was just to illustrate the problem. The actual string I’m hoping to use is:

“🥲:innocent:🥸:partying_face:”

Then again, some of the emojis right above are also not formatting correctly… I wonder if something changed in the emoji encoding or in Thunkable. I wasn’t having problems like this before.

[muneer]

Remember that emojis are sometimes 2 characters and sometimes 3 or 4 so you need to create a List of objects that contains the emoji itself and another property to store the number of characters it consists of so you can properly get the in text part.

[tatiang]

Thanks, I didn’t realize that. Is there an easy way to determine the string length of an emoji then?

Edit: That’s alright, I looped through each 2-character substring and added them to a list. That worked!