Text to emoji Gboard in textinput crash

[albert-carreras]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
Node: 8.4.0
npm: 5.4.0

Packages:
react-native: 0.53
react: 16.2.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start inputting text on any textinput component.
2. Write a word that Gboard can transform (suggests) into an emoji.
3. Accept the change.
4. App crash

Expected Behavior

No crash.

[hramos]

This may have been fixed by #18114 which is now on master.

[albert-carreras]

Still present in 0.54.0

[hramos]

The fix, b60a727, landed in master after the 0.54 release was cut, so that's expected.