# 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:** ![schungx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schungx/32/70989_2.png) [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-space-before-the-emoji-if-the-user-is-typing-chinese-and-uses-emoji-picker/83285/6 "2018-07-10T10:15:21Z")

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You can do this much simpler by always putting a space before the emoji code when selected from the picker.

You can also skip this space if the character immediately before is space.

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