Emoji's don't work with APNS-PHP about php-emoji HOT 4 CLOSED

Take a look at issue #7 - APNS does some weird handling for escaping Unicode, so you'll probably need to manually find the surrogate pair and then double encode your emoji. e.g.

$message = "\\uD83D\\uDCC5" . "This is an emoji";

Let me know if that works for you and i'll update the README

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The suggested solution did not work. Instead of emoji, I am now getting a \? in the notification. Here's what I get now in push notification...

?This is an emoji.

Here is a gist of the code I used.

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It seems like Apns-PHP is just broken. Find this line in ApnsPHP/Message.php:

if (!defined('JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE') && function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {

It should be around line 376. Add && 0 into the conditional, to stop it from ever firing. It should then work. My test code is here: https://gist.github.com/iamcal/6169622

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@iamcal - Thank you very much for your prompt support. The solution you suggested worked out well.

Just for information, the code in APNS-PHP that will not be fired is the one related to truncating a payload if it exceeds the limit of permissible push notification size (256 bytes).
I had some payloads exceeding the limit, so I decided to truncate them before sending the push notification, instead of making APNS-PHP handle the truncating.

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