adamlwatson

# 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, ''