title: The Whatsapp wa.me link does not correctly display the emoji sent in the text parameter on the desktop and web
body: <p>I'm using the link <a href="https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-use-click-to-chat/?lang=kk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wa.me</a> in a web application for open a chat with a message with emojis. With the message like &quot;Hi &quot; the formed link is like this:</p>
  <p><a href="https://wa.me/XXXXXXXXXXXXX?text=Hi+%F0%9F%98%89" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wa.me/XXXXXXXXXXXXX?text=Hi+%F0%9F%98%89</a></p>
  <p>When the user opens this link on the smartphone everything is fine, but on the desktop (and WhatsApp Web) the message is sent as &quot;Hi �&quot;</p>
  <p>The emoji is encoded correctly (&quot;%F0%9F%98%89&quot;). I found that if I use the old api.whatsapp.com/send instead wa.me, I don't have this error. Could there be something wrong when wa.me redirects to the old api.whatsapp? I'm afraid to use the api.whatsapp in production because the whatsapp documentation doesn't talk about it anymore, and can be changed without notice, I imagine.</p>