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# this scrubs emoji sequences from a string - i think it covers all of them | |
def strip_emoji ( str ) | |
str = str.force_encoding('utf-8').encode | |
clean_text = "" | |
# emoticons 1F601 - 1F64F | |
regex = /[\u{1f600}-\u{1f64f}]/ | |
clean_text = str.gsub regex, '' |