# Text entry Component - wrong length for emojis

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895
**Category:** Report a Bug
**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895 "2021-02-16T21:19:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895/1 "2021-02-16T21:19:37Z")

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Hi - I have an app that asks a user to put in a single emoji to a form. I am using the text component with default values of 1 min and 1 max. However when I paste in an emoji using my laptop and on my phone, inserting a single emoji counts as 2 characters! not a show stopper - just annoying! Thanks!

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### Author: ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895/2 "2021-02-16T21:43:47Z")

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I suspect this has to do with Unicode.

The name for this: 💫 emoji is ‘Dizzy Symbol’ for apple and Unicode. That’s two words.

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### Author: ![david](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/david/32/62831_2.png) [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895/3 "2021-02-16T21:57:02Z")

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Yes, unfortunately emojis are not each represented as a single character.

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### Author: ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jason/32/14_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jason)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-component-wrong-length-for-emojis/22895/4 "2021-02-16T22:33:18Z")

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Bug filed. I think we should add special handling for emoji if the limit is 1 char.