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by pjscott 4950 days ago
The quick summary, for people who don't like ignoring all those = signs, is that V8 uses UCS-2 internally to represent strings, and therefore can't handle Unicode characters which lie outside the Basic Multilingual Plane -- including Emoji.
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Honestly that's a shame.
It was fixed back in March though.