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Asked: 2026-06-06T02:44:22+00:00

I’d like to display the Open Lock character in my HTML link text. If

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I’d like to display the “Open Lock” character in my HTML link text.

If I do it directly it shows up correctly with <a id="myId">&#x1f512;</a>, but I found no way to change it dinamically with the jQuery .text() function, like in:

 $("#myID").text(openLockText);

What should I put in openLockText?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Javascript internally only supports UTF-16.

    Because this is an extended 32-bit UTF character (not in the “Basic Multilingual Plane”) you need to insert the “UTF-16 surrogate pair”, which is helpfully provided on the same page that you linked to:

    0xD83D 0xDD13

    i.e.

    $('#myId').text('\ud83d\udd13');

    More details can be found in RFC 4627, which is strictly speaking the format for JSON.

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