UTF in meeting registrant name

API and Webhooks
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Description
I’m working on an application to manage breakouts in meetings. We’re registering users via the API and prepend their name with an EMOJI, something like “:star2: Dirk”, but when they join the meeting, the EMOJI is replaced with a single dash, ie ‘- Dirk’. :sob:.

Is this the expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong?

Error
No Emojis present when users join the call, or when I look at the list of registrants

Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)?
OAuth

Which Endpoint/s?
POST /meetings/{meetingId}/registrants

How To Reproduce (If applicable)

headers = {
    "Authorization": f'Bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
    "Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
}
post_data = json.dumps({'email': 'user@example.net', 'first_name': '🌟 Dirk'}, ensure_ascii=False).encode('utf-8')
api_resp = requests.post('https://api.zoom.us/v2/meetings/{meetingId}/registrants', headers=headers, data=post_data)
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Hey @d27,

At the moment, we don’t support emojis as values for the string content in our APIs (or in the Zoom Client participants list), so I’m afraid this is expected. :slightly_frowning_face:

That said, I can definitely appreciate where you’re coming from, and I think this is a great suggestion. If you’re so inclined, you might consider posting this as a feature request here: #feature-requests

Thanks,
Will

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Thanks for the response! I’ll post this as a feature request. Is the current behavior wrt accepted characters in usernames documented somewhere?

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Hey @d27,

Our APIs support ASCII characters—we will work on making this clearer in the documentation. :slight_smile:

cc @shrijana.g

Thanks,
Will

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