hexHtmlify changes non-emoji text

[jringbox]

hexHtmlify appears to change more than it should. I have a message with "back in town @ 4:30-5:00 pm." in the text and it replace it with "back in town @ 4👨0-5😮0 pm." which is completely incorrect for what I want.

To be honest, I have text where I'm just changing unicode characters to hex html. Is it possible to update the method call to pass in an option to only replace unicode characters? Maybe even have the option configurable to whatever representations of emoji your trying to replace? If I can do that then this problem goes way.

[PrimosK]

+1

It would be nice to have some kind of a flag which would dictate whether "emoticons" should be ignored when htmlify-ing a text.

So something like:
EmojiUtils.htmlify(String text, boolean ignoreEmoticons)

[PrimosK]

I've just noticed that there is already a pull request for this one:
#21

What are plans to merge this one?

Also - is this repository still being maintained?