Thanks for that. If I use $text = "Test \N{GRINNING FACE}" in my program then the websocket client displays the emoji correctly. I modified your sample code a little and it gave the following output.

With the $text = "Test \N{GRINNING FACE}" for the emoji it gives: 

$VAR1 = "\x{1f600}";
128512
GRINNING FACE

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Using the string read from MySQL the emoji gives: 

240
LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
$VAR1 = '�';
159
APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND
$VAR1 = '�';
152
START OF STRING
$VAR1 = '�';
128
PADDING CHARACTER

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Changing the database to UTF-8 will be difficult as it's not entirely under our control. Do you think the table being latin1 is the problem?

In reply to Re^4: Encoding of emoji character by dcunningham
in thread Encoding of emoji character by dcunningham

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