jquery .text() and unicode

Question

I\'d like to display the \"Open Lock\" character in my HTML link text.

If I do it directly it shows up correctly with 🔒<

Answer 1

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.