Parse Cloud Code - Send emojis in Push Notification

Question

I am trying to include some unicode chars for an emoji to show as a Push Notification by using Cloud Code.

As an example we prepend the message with an emoji like this:

  var textToSend = "\u1f60e " + message;

Then this is sent via the Parse.Push.

data: {
      alert: textToSend
    }

However, the emoji is not received just the text. I imagine this is down to the encoding but not sure how this should be done?

Answer 1

This is kind of redundant now Parse is closing Jan 2017.