How to remove surrogate characters in Java?

Question

I am facing a situation where i get Surrogate characters in text that i am saving to MySql 5.1. As the UTF-16 is not supported in this, I want to remove these surrogate pai

Answer 1

if remove, all these solutions are useful but if repalce, below is better

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
        char c = s.charAt(i);
        if(Character.isHighSurrogate(c)){
            sb.append('*');
        }else if(!Character.isLowSurrogate(c)){
            sb.append(c);
        }
    }
    return sb.toString();