How to detect if string contains emoji in Java?

Question

I would like to detect if a string contains emoji in Java.

I tried https://github.com/vdurmont/emoji-java but it is not maintained anymore and fails on new emojis.

For example - the following test fails:

EmojiManager.containsEmoji("This string contains beans 🫘") shouldBe true

Answer 1

In Java 21 you will be able to use Character#isEmoji(int) to help you out.