Here's my issue: I have an Instagram post that I want to embed. I go to Instagram, I get the embed code, which includes emoji, I paste it into the WP editor on a new post (note that I am on the "text" tab, since it's code). I click Save. The editor deletes the emoji characters, and everything after the emoji. Needless to say, this screws up the embed code and everything fails.
I can work around this by manually deleting the emoji after pasting but before clicking Save. However, is there a way to fix Wordpress to accept the emoji?
I'm on WP 4.5.1.
To reproduce the problem:
- Make a new post in WP, flip over to "Text" tab.
- Go to this example Instagram post, get the embed code (under "..."). Note that embed code includes emoji.
- Paste the embed code into the new WP post. You can see the emoji pasted in correctly.
- Click Save Draft.
- Note that emoji and everything after has been deleted.