crashing with emoji

[wasawi]

Hi James, its Jordi from Japan,

I'm using this addon togheter with Carles, there has been another related issue here:
rezaali/ofxUI#172

Well, we are receiving UTF-8 strings from the web and I noticed that ofxFTGL is crashing when receiving emojis:

str = "音"; // this does not crash
str = "\360\237\230\215"; // this crashes

Sorry,github doesnt let me paste the emoji either ... "Body contains unicode characters above 0xffff"

I'm looking for a way to findAndDestroy emojis :) I'm almost there but perhaps you know a smarter way to fix that. To me, it seems that FTGL crashes when receives 4 byte symbols. but I haven't completely tested out. I can find those and delete them in my code but probably the best it would be to have it fixed in the addon.

Any thoughts?
Cheers!
j

[wasawi]

this code will kill emojis in a rude way.. but there must be a better way to do the job I guess.

string ofApp::parseString(string s){

    string returnString = "";
    int l = s.length();
    int i;

    // for each byte
    for (i = 0; i < l; ++i) {
        char mychar = s[i];
        string binary = ofToBinary(mychar);
        binary =  binary.substr(0,4);
        if (binary == "1111"){
            i+=3;       //jump to next char
            cout << "Found Emoji, killing... " << endl;
        }else{
            returnString += mychar;
        }
    }
    return returnString;
}