Emoji's in Elastic Search - how to allow them to searchable
You need to write/configure a character filter:
Character filtersFirst, the string is passed through any character filters in turn. Their job is to tidy up the string before tokenization. A character filter could be used to strip out HTML, or to convert & characters to the word and.
So you can turn emoijs into abbreviations and then store as regular text.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-charfilters.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/analysis-intro.html