Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:39:10 GMT

Please explain what you mean with "it is not working".

I can copy the string you posted and store it in my database.

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

tohant — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:35:19 GMT

Hello. You could try this string as in your example:

ertyuiopasdfghjklvbnm\uD83D\uDE09\uD83D\uDE09\uD83D\uDE17\uD83D\uDE03\uD83D\uDE03


It will store the encoded values of emojis and after retrieval from database and rendering on the web page it will be displayed as typical icon

Best, Anton.

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

jojog0003 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:16:59 GMT

Hi Stefan ,

I tried this but it is not  working . 
I  want to save in DB like:
example: ertyuiopasdfghjklvbnm

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

tohant — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:33:32 GMT

I'm not sure how Appian parse an emoji as I'm not currently passed full course, but you could refer next resource to check for UTF-8 and other encodings database supports and Appian as well. You need to store a code of this emoji, so, if Appian parses Java emoji encoding, it could be value:

"\uD83E\uDD23"

Without double quotes.

Hope it will help.

Best, Anton.

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:33:19 GMT

The collation of the field needs to be "utf8mb4_general_ci". This can also be set for the whole table in table options.

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:47:42 GMT

nvarchar should get you covered.

RE: Saving Emoji and special characters to Appian Cloud database

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:31:23 GMT

I am not sure what your question is about. There is nothing special about emojis.

Just make sure that the field is of type UTF8MB4 instead of UTF8MB3. Then you can store any character.