How to remove an emoji from a string?

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My dataset has a column which has a name from a airbnb and that name has emojis and special characters. I want to remove them and let there only the letters. 

[Anonymous]

Hi

Take a look at this article that shows different ways to remove emojis from a Java String. Using emoji library, regular expressions and Unicode ranges. For example, use regular expression on a tJavaRow:

output_row.text=input_row.replaceAll(context.regex, "");

//define a context variable which contains the regex expression: [^\\p{L}\\p{N}\\p{P}\\p{Z}]

Regards

Shong