Another approach: function replaceEmoticons(text) { var emoticons = { ‘:-)’ : ‘smile1.gif’, ‘:)’ : ‘smile2.gif’, ‘:D’ : ‘smile3.gif’ }, url = “http://www.domain.com/”; // a simple regex to match the characters used in the emoticons return text.replace(/[:\-)D]+/g, function (match) { return typeof emoticons[match] != ‘undefined’ ? ‘<img src=”‘+url+emoticons[match]+'”/>’ : match; }); } replaceEmoticons(‘this is a simple … Read more
I was finally able to figure out the issue. I had to change some settings in mysql configuration my.ini This article helped a lot http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4#character-sets First i changed the character set in my.ini to utf8mb4 Next i ran the following commands in mysql client SET NAMES utf8mb4; ALTER DATABASE dreams_twitter CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE … Read more
I think it would be more useful to build Spannable. private static final Factory spannableFactory = Spannable.Factory .getInstance(); private static final Map<Pattern, Integer> emoticons = new HashMap<Pattern, Integer>(); static { addPattern(emoticons, “:)”, R.drawable.emo_im_happy); addPattern(emoticons, “:-)”, R.drawable.emo_im_happy); // … } private static void addPattern(Map<Pattern, Integer> map, String smile, int resource) { map.put(Pattern.compile(Pattern.quote(smile)), resource); } public static … Read more
The program uses digraphs to represent the following: [] {}; This is a lambda expression that does nothing. The corresponding symbols have these equivalents: <: = [ %> = } Though they are generally unneeded today, digraphs are useful for when your keyboard lacks certain keys necessary to use C++’s basic source character set, namely … Read more
I found a very useful Emoticon Keyboard. This keyboard is not using Unicode sequences but rather just local image assets. I am thinking that this type of keyboard can only be useful within this app and not with other apps or Operating Systems. So instead I am replacing the ImageView containing an asset with a … Read more