

In UTF-8 representation, the above would be \圆1\圆9\x75\圆5\圆f.In UTF-16 representation, the above would be \u3042\u3044\u3046\u3048\u304a.Īiueo (same thing as above, but now with Latin characters).あいうえお (a i u e o, the 5 vowels written in Japanese hiragana script) Which is basically text.īasically, what this means is that emoji are actually encoded and handled in the same way that say, a Japanese character would be.

What I mean is that they’re Unicode codepoints.

This may seem very counterintuitive, but emoji are actually text.
