API JS cannot send Emojis in API body

[AnasSpir05]

Hi everyone,

I'm using an api to send messages but the problem is that when I insert an emoji in the body I get a 400 Bad request back here is my js code :

var jsonData = {
                "type": "text",                               
                "text": "body": "hello how are you ",
                token = "xxxxxxxxxxx",
                contentType = "application/json";
                
var req = new HttpClientRequest('https://exampleTestEndpoint.com/sendMessage/128192');
          req.header["Authorization"] = token;
          req.header["Content-Type"] =  contentType;
          req.method = "POST";
          var data = jsonData;
          req.body = JSON.stringify(data);
          req.execute();
          var resp = req.response;
          var code = resp.code;
          var body = JSON.parse(resp.body);

Then when I remove the emoji everything works normally, I tried with another api from another service and I had the same problem when I insert an emoji,
I also tried with the utf-8 code of the emoji but it still doesn't work.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Denis_Bozonnet]

HI @AnasSpir05 

I would suppose you need to send the emojis in their unicode value. Emojis are unique code values and JSON is using unicode too, 

This page is old https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7177808/emoji-characters-cannot-be-encoded-to-json#:~:text=If%20.... and it seems that there are a few tricks to put emojis in JSON

Now how to get unicode for a emojis, I don't now exactly and you certainly can find the how by search internet (Stackoverflow or other)

Thanks

Denis

[AnasSpir05 · Accepted solution]

Hello everyone,
I've found the solution to the problem, which was to change the encoding in the header and replace this value in the header

var contentType = "application/json;charset=UTF-8";
req.header["Content-Type"] =  contentType;

most modules take it into account automatically, but on adobe campaign you have to specify it.