How get real char code from an emoji in JavaScript?

Question

I have, for example, this emoji:

... and i want to get your char code. i tried this:

var emoji = ""
var char_code = emoji.charCodeAt()
console.log(emoji,char_code)

But when using String's fromCharCode method, I don't get the original emoji:

var emoji = ""
var char_code = emoji.charCodeAt()
var original = String.fromCharCode(char_code)
console.log(original)

How can I get the original emoji from your char code? Or else how can I get your actual char code to use it in String.fromCharCode?

Also, for the record, this was a very well-asked question. – Lewis Jul 12 '20 at 07:14 — Lewis, Jul 12 '20 at 07:14

Lewis · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-12T07:13:16.567

String.codePointAt() and String.fromCodePoint() are made for this, though it is also possible to specify a UTF-16 charCode in legacy browsers using surrogate keypairs (see the discussion here).

let emoji = "",
    charCode = emoji.charCodeAt(),
    codePoint = emoji.codePointAt();

console.log(
    'charCode:', charCode,
    String.fromCharCode(charCode)   // doesn't work =(
)

console.log(
    'codePoint:', codePoint,
    String.fromCodePoint(codePoint) // there we go!
);

How get real char code from an emoji in JavaScript?

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