I-Pad Smiley truncates text in comment field?
Using Jamroom
The problem here is that these are not Jamroom "smileys" - these are "emoji" from the iPad keyboard, and unfortunately MySQL older than 5.5.3 does NOT support the proper utf-8 encoding needed to store these emoji in the database.
This is something I have already worked on for 5.3, but the "solution" in 5.3 is going to be to strip the emoji from the string (so at least the rest of the text is inserted).
Post 5.3 we will look at updates that will allow emoji to be stored for those systems that are on MySQL 5.5.3 and newer (it will require conversion of storage encoding from utf8 to utf8mb4).
Let me know if that helps.