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Suppose I wanted to replace emoji in a string with it's texuarl equivalent. I think I need to search for Unicodes, so for example convert , unicode 1F600, to wherever it occurs in the string...

What should the regex expression look like?

Just realised the forum converst them back! I meant:

I think I need to search for Unicodes, so for example convert "", unicode 1F600, to ": - )" (without the spaces or quotes!) wherever it occurs in the string...

What should the regex expression look like?

If you only need simple replace, using replace() is enough. Emoji should be recognized properly, just like other UTF-8 chars. Using replaceAll() also work here, since it is only single (emoji) char.

Thanks. For the record, what would the regex syntax be?

Surprisingly, the emoji itself can be used as the syntax. That's why replaceAll() also work there (replaceAll() is the regex version of replace() ). Try it in the regex tester, no need to escape it or using the unicode.