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Here is a public FB post: http://facebook.com/556645544_10152911729090545 Note the emoji after BIG BROTHER time, and others.

Here's is query that finds that same post: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=big+brother+emoji+Scott+Eaton&type=post

That query includes: "message": "BIG BROTHER time! \udbb9\udd38It's come

How does one interpret \udbb9\udd38 ? This is not standard Unicode, nor is it UTF-8. How does one translate that into the correct UTF-8, which is \uF09F\92BB ?

Camilo Wilson
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  • Did you ever figure this out? I asked a [similar question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20045268/how-does-facebook-encode-emoji-in-the-json-graph-api). – philoye Nov 18 '13 at 10:27

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Facebook encodes Emoji using the "Google" encoding as you can see from this table.

\udbb9\udd38 is javascript escaped UTF-8, and when unescaped is U+FE538.

I can't see the original post to be sure, but U+FE538 corresponds to PERSONAL COMPUTER, which is U+1F4BB in "unified unicode", which looks like this emoji:

I have no idea what language you are working in, but I made a Ruby Gem called Emojivert that assists with the conversion from Google encoding to Unified unicode.

philoye
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