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Masato Ohba
Masato Ohba

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Convert emoji and codepoints each other in Ruby

#ruby #emoji #unicode

The tips below are what I've learned while implementing a gem, github_reactions, to summarize reactions on GitHub issues and pull requests.

Get codepoints from emoji 

"👍".unpack("U*")
=> [128077]

"👍".codepoints
=> [128077]

# Convert to hexadecimal
"👍".each_codepoint.map {|n| n.to_s(16) }
=> ["1f44d"]
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Get emoji from codepoints 

[128077].pack("U*")
=> "👍"

0x1f44d.chr('UTF-8')
=> "👍"

"\u{1f44d}"
=> "👍"
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