# Automatically add a space before the emoji if the user is typing Chinese and uses emoji picker

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-space-before-the-emoji-if-the-user-is-typing-chinese-and-uses-emoji-picker/83285>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-space-before-the-emoji-if-the-user-is-typing-chinese-and-uses-emoji-picker/83285 "2018-03-19T08:24:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![snakeninny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/snakeninny/32/115522_2.png) [@snakeninny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/snakeninny)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-space-before-the-emoji-if-the-user-is-typing-chinese-and-uses-emoji-picker/83285/1 "2018-03-19T08:24:03Z")

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Hi Discourse team:

I have been using Discourse for 4 years and love the modern design and quick updates. Thank you!

Recently, I have noticed some issues in my [forum](http://iosre.com). In China, we seldom use spaces as you do in English, so basically every emoji from the emoji picker is rendered incorrectly like this:

呵呵:thinking:

This is annoying and confuses most Chinese users. Can you think of a way to improve the Chinese user experience?

Thank you!

Yinglu

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