# Blocking emojis won't work

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853 "2019-01-07T02:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853/10 "2019-02-15T15:27:36Z")

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Blocking emoji now works, via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/99c6db21e632fd8731ff97f4122cc89a7c0e0257](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/99c6db21e632fd8731ff97f4122cc89a7c0e0257)

Both `:fu:` and the unicode emoji can be blocked.

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