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Luke4792
Luke4792

Reputation: 455

Escaping emoji sequences in WPF Textblock

I have a textblock that is bound to my 'PostContent' string, like so:

<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Left" Text="{Binding Path = PostContent, Mode = OneWay}" FontSize="12" Width="300" Margin = "3 5 3 5"/>

My PostContent string will sometimes contain emojis, as well as text. For example I might return a string that looks liks this:

Hello World &#x1F600;

However, the textblock displays the literal string, and does not escape the emoji. I've also tried to escape it like this:

Hello World \u1F600

But I still end up having the same problem.

Is there another way to escape these chracters properly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (1)

Luke4792
Luke4792

Reputation: 455

I managed to make this work by taking the hex code (i.e. 1F600) and converting it to a decimal code using the following code:

int result = int.Parse(hexCode, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
outputString += char.ConvertFromUtf32(result);

Upvotes: 1

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