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I was writing a message on AirBnB(iOS app) and quickly pressed the thumbs up(at least I think) and smiley face(U+1F60A) emoji But instead got this output on the text box:

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Looks like letter 'A' in a black and white square(+reversed variation). Interestingly it wasn't possible to copy these characters, that is it was, but on paste action, nothing was pasted...

I'm really curious what could have caused this, I presume, Unicode letter. At least I would like to know what exact Unicode characters are these(code)? Are emojis constructed of 2 Unicode chars so I somehow managed to glitch one emoji inside another and thus made it deconstruct to these individual chars?!

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  • Have you seen this in any Apple app?
    – Tom Gewecke
    Commented Jun 26, 2023 at 15:32
  • Nope, first time this happened... I tried provoking it later by maniacally pressing the emojis, but couldn't reproduce it
    – RoughSeas
    Commented Jun 26, 2023 at 15:42

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Emoji with 5 digit numbers are in some circumstances actually composed of 2 special 4 digit characters called surrogates, whose symbols you saw on your screen. I think having them appear is likely a bug in the app.

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