Can I test emojis and surrogate pairs?

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What are surrogates?

Surrogates, or surrogate pairs, are pairs of UTF-16 code values that encodes one special character such as an emoji.

Chromium only supports BMP characters which includes 182 characters that can be treated as text or emojis depending on the surrogates.

As a result, Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome or Edge can only handle these surrogates.

There is no workaround to this limitation so if you need to run tests on Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, please only use BMP characters.

Emojis and surrogate pairs are supported.

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