Removing emojis from variable
I'm using Smarty to pass in and display the contents of a first_name variable. Some users have Emoji characters ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji ) in their first_name and I am wondering how I can either a) conditionally not display a user's first_name if it contains emojis or b) filter out emoji characters from first_name . Can this be done with Smarty? Can it be done with PHP in Smarty? omercnet The emoji are encoded in the block U+1F300–U+1F5FF. preg_replace('/\xEE[\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|\xEF[\x81-\x83][\x80-\xBF]/', '', $first_name) this will strip those out João Neto I tried some of the