Hello all!

I need to replace all emoticons in a large LaTeX-file with some icons. I put up a little file with:

😘 🚕

and made a perl-filter to replace the first one with an icon. But I am unable to find the right unicode search-pattern.

Could somebody be so kind and help with this? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8; 
use charnames ':full';

# while(<>) {
#   s!\x{D83D}\x{DE18}!\\includegraphics[height=15pt]{/Users/mstep/Doc
+uments/private_txt/anette/pix/emo01.png}!g
# }

# while(<>) {
# foreach (/\x{0020}/g) {print "hurray!\n"}; # this is working! (Searc
+hes for a space!)
# }

while(<>) {
foreach (/\N{FACE THROWING A KISS}/g) {print "hurray! And here is your
+ emoticon!\n"}; # this is not working! (Searches for the emoticon &#1
+28536; !)
}

# while(<>) {
# foreach (/&#128536;/g) {print "hurray! And here is your emoticon!\n"
+}; # this is not working! (Searches for the emoticon &#128536; !)
# }

# while(<>) {
# foreach (/\x{D83D}\x{DE18}/g) {print "hurray! And here is your emoti
+con!\n"}; # this is not working! (Searches for the emoticon &#128536;
+ !)
# }

# while(<>) {
# foreach (/\N{U+D83DDE18}/g) {print "hurray! And here is your emotico
+n!\n"}; # this is not working! (Searches for the emoticon &#128536; !
+)
# }

# while(<>) {
# foreach (/\N{U+D83D}\N{U+DE18}/g) {print "hurray! And here is your e
+moticon!\n"}; # this is not working! (Searches for the emoticon &#128
+536; !)
# }

# in BBEdit the search pattern \x{D83D}\x{DE18} for the emoticon was w
+orking
# hexdump is giving U+D83D U+DE18

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