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Discussion on: Converting UTF (including emoji) to HTML

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Why convert Unicode characters into HTML entities at all?

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Nikki Massaro Kauffman • Edited

Good question (thanks for asking). I work on front end open source web components, if I don't have control over the backend, I can be sure that UTF-8 is supported.