Use HTML entities instead

src/helm/proxy/clients/mechanical_turk_critique_exporter.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def _format_template_tags(raw_text: str) -> str:
 
 def _render_template_crowd_html(task_template: CritiqueTaskTemplate) -> str:
     """Render the Crowd HTML for the template."""
-    scripts_crowd_html = textwrap.dedent(
+    validation_crowd_html = textwrap.dedent(
         """\
         <script>
             // Validates that an option is selected for each radio group
@@ -54,54 +54,6 @@ def _render_template_crowd_html(task_template: CritiqueTaskTemplate) -> str:
                     }
                 }
             });
-        </script>
-        <script>
-            // Displays escaped emoji in because Mechanical turk does not support
-            // unescaped emoji. ("Unsupported characters found")
-            // Source: https://github.com/charman/mturk-emoji
-
-            /**
-            * utf8ByteArrayToString() copied from:
-            *     https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/e877b1eac410c0d842bcda118689759512e0e26f/closure/goog/crypt/crypt.js
-            *
-            * Converts a UTF-8 byte array to JavaScript's 16-bit Unicode.
-            * @param {Uint8Array|Array<number>} bytes UTF-8 byte array.
-            * @return {string} 16-bit Unicode string.
-            */
-            function utf8ByteArrayToString(bytes) {
-                var out = [], pos = 0, c = 0;
-                while (pos < bytes.length) {
-                    var c1 = bytes[pos++];
-                    if (c1 < 128) {
-                        out[c++] = String.fromCharCode(c1);
-                    } else if (c1 > 191 && c1 < 224) {
-                        var c2 = bytes[pos++];
-                        out[c++] = String.fromCharCode((c1 & 31) << 6 | c2 & 63);
-                    } else if (c1 > 239 && c1 < 365) {
-                        // Surrogate Pair
-                        var c2 = bytes[pos++];
-                        var c3 = bytes[pos++];
-                        var c4 = bytes[pos++];
-                        var u = ((c1 & 7) << 18 | (c2 & 63) << 12 | (c3 & 63) << 6 | c4 & 63) -
-                                        0x10000;
-                        out[c++] = String.fromCharCode(0xD800 + (u >> 10));
-                        out[c++] = String.fromCharCode(0xDC00 + (u & 1023));
-                    } else {
-                        var c2 = bytes[pos++];
-                        var c3 = bytes[pos++];
-                        out[c++] =
-                            String.fromCharCode((c1 & 15) << 12 | (c2 & 63) << 6 | c3 & 63);
-                    }
-                }
-                return out.join('');
-            }
-
-            document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
-                const emojiSpans = document.getElementsByClassName("emoji-bytes");
-                for (let emojiSpan of emojiSpans) {
-                    emojiSpan.innerText = utf8ByteArrayToString(JSON.parse(emojiSpan.getAttribute("data-emoji-bytes")));
-                }
-            });
         </script>"""
     )
 
@@ -115,7 +67,7 @@ def _render_template_crowd_html(task_template: CritiqueTaskTemplate) -> str:
     return textwrap.dedent(
         f"""\
         <script src="https://assets.crowd.aws/crowd-html-elements.js"></script>
-        {_indent_to_level(scripts_crowd_html, 2)}
+        {_indent_to_level(validation_crowd_html, 2)}
         <crowd-form answer-format="flatten-objects">
             {_indent_to_level(instructions_crowd_html, 3)}
             {_indent_to_level(divider_html, 3)}

src/helm/proxy/clients/mechanical_turk_utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import codecs
 import json
 import re
 import sys
@@ -29,9 +28,7 @@ def _emoji_match_to_span(emoji_match):
         Returns:
             Unicode string
         """
-        bytes = codecs.encode(emoji_match.group(), "utf-8")
-        bytes_as_json = json.dumps([b for b in bytearray(bytes)])
-        return "<span class='emoji-bytes' data-emoji-bytes='%s'></span>" % bytes_as_json
+        return emoji_match.group().encode("ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace").decode()
 
     # The procedure for stripping Emoji characters is based on this
     # StackOverflow post: