picker.getText() Returns HTML with textArea input

[DomTheShort]

When I set the picker to listen on a textarea as the input, calling the picker.getText() method returns a line of html instead of returning the unicode value.

example: <span class="emoji emoji-sizer" style="background-image:url(/emoji-data/img-apple-64/1f61b.png)" data-codepoints="1f61b"></span>

I have noticed that if I change the textarea to an editable div, that this method returns unicode as expected. However, the page I'm working with already has several things relying on this textarea, and I was hoping to avoid reworking the page to work with an editable div if I don't have to.

[DomTheShort]

I was able to retrieve the unicode character eventually by calling emoji.getCharacter() in the callback of the picker.