Android Question Problem With Emojis and json_decode

[Marcos Alves]

Hello...

I'm getting a problem when using jsonparser fuction as follows:

- Device A sends data using a POST command to a server, and then the server delivers to device B
- Suppose that data is an emoji like this: ☺
- The data is correctly received by the server and stored in mysql database (correctly).
- When requested by B, the data is codified using json_decode due the presence of other fields for data control, generating something like this:

{"MESSAGERECEIVED":{"ID":"CC8667C65B900ED106FC8201807FCB07F07C9AF8470B1FA2F48333320D9CC720","IDCHAT":"BB2071692B892610D3222E9044384C27A05FD7FC1EEA30A738B39E2632339EB6","MSGDATA":"\u263a","MSGCREATED":1526588421517,"IDSOURCE":"638"}}

- Notice that the field "MSGDATA" is the original emoji correctly codified by json_encode at server side...

To receive data from server, a POST answer in the side B, using jsonparser, runs the routine:

                               Dim Resposta As Map
                               Resposta.Initialize
                               Resposta = Json1.NextObject
                       
                                Dim NewMessage As Map
                                NewMessage.Initialize
                             
                                NewMessage = Resposta.Get("MESSAGERECEIVED")
                             
                                Dim IdMessage As String = NewMessage.Get("ID")
                                Dim IdChat As String = NewMessage.Get("IDCHAT")
                                Dim MsgData As String = NewMessage.Get("MSGDATA")
                                Dim MsgCreated As Long = NewMessage.Get("MSGCREATED")
                                Dim IdSource As Int = NewMessage.Get("IDSOURCE")

...

- Showing MsgData content in a label.text in B side I got u263a (emoji text code!!!) instead of the emoji pic!

Then, I'm a little confused here. Shouldn't jsonparser had converted the \u263a to ☺ ? What am I doing wrong ?

 

[ronell]

take a look at this thread https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/is-there-a-good-solution-for-display-emoji-in.61083/

then maybe this will work

 Dim MsgData As String = NewMessage.Get("MSGDATA")

Dim Msg as string

Msg="0x"&MsgData.SubString(1)


edittext1.text = UTS(Msg)
Sub UTS (codepoint As Int) As String
  Dim bc As ByteConverter
  Dim b() As Byte = bc.IntsToBytes(Array As Int(codepoint))
  Return BytesToString(b, 0, 4, "UTF32")
End Sub

 

[Erel]

Code:

Dim json As JSONParser
json.Initialize($"{"MSGDATA":"\u263a"}"$)
Dim m As Map = json.NextObject
Activity.Title = m.Get("MSGDATA")

Result:

 

[Marcos Alves]

Code:

Dim json As JSONParser
json.Initialize($"{"MSGDATA":"\u263a"}"$)
Dim m As Map = json.NextObject
Activity.Title = m.Get("MSGDATA")

Result:

Hi @Erel . Fast answering as always. Thanks!
I understand that I can decode json data came from server but I found a better way... what if all the flow A->server->B could maintain the original Android format, even after successive json encode/decode? If it can be done, it isn't needed to worry with format conversion. I noticed that there are many different notations for json depending on php version, apache, android, ios and so on.

The problem was in server side notation when I used json_encode in php... something like this:

$message["MESSARECEIVED"] = $messagefields;

echo json_encode($message);

The solution to maintain recognizable format by Android is to use in server:

$message["MESSAGERECEIVED"] = $messagefields;

echo json_encode($message,JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE|JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);

The options JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE|JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES tell to php interpreter to maintain the Android format and then we can storage in mysql using utf8mb4 and send back using echo showing directly in Android without any change!

I hope that this information could help any other community member that could be having the same issue...

 

[Marcos Alves]

take a look at this thread https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/is-there-a-good-solution-for-display-emoji-in.61083/

then maybe this will work

 Dim MsgData As String = NewMessage.Get("MSGDATA")

Dim Msg as string

Msg="0x"&MsgData.SubString(1)


edittext1.text = UTS(Msg)
Sub UTS (codepoint As Int) As String
  Dim bc As ByteConverter
  Dim b() As Byte = bc.IntsToBytes(Array As Int(codepoint))
  Return BytesToString(b, 0, 4, "UTF32")
End Sub

Thanks! I found the solution... please, see my post in this thread.