# Emoji not appearing without space

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-not-appearing-without-space/97992>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-not-appearing-without-space/97992 "2018-09-25T07:50:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-not-appearing-without-space/97992/3 "2018-09-25T08:29:12Z")

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We have some previous discussion on this here:

> [@Automatically add a space before the emoji if the user is typing Chinese and uses emoji picker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-space-before-the-emoji-if-the-user-is-typing-chinese-and-uses-emoji-picker/83285/9):
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> We have a few options here: Allow 呵:t\_rex: so t_rex is an emoji. The problem though is that it is very expensive to detect Chinese per [https://github.com/alsotang/is-chinese/blob/master/ischinese.js](https://github.com/alsotang/is-chinese/blob/master/ischinese.js) so this would add a bunch of extra slowness to the MD engine. Fix it so autocomplete behaves consistently with the way the engine interprets it. Meaning 呵:t should not pop open an emoji window. @schungx suggestion where after autocomplete is done we insert a space prior to emoji if needed…

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