# 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853/2 "2019-01-07T02:40:10Z")

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There is a difference between blocking a unicode code point (character) and the spelled-out version `:fu:`

Not entirely sure which code paths would work here cc @sam but probably will come up again.

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