# Emoji on macOS has an extra character compared to iOS ⛳️⛳
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [22 בינואר, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646 "2018-01-22T11:50:36Z")
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/1 "2018-01-22T11:50:36Z")
I typed the golf flag in the subject line using macOS Cmd+Ctrl+Space shortcut to bring up the character picker.
Notice how the emoji has an extra unicode character square after it?
If I type the same subject line on iOS there is no extra character after the golf flag.
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/2 "2018-01-22T22:44:05Z")
@j.jaffeux can you have a quick look, only appears to repro on mac (I saw it yesterday, but did not see on Windows)
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/3 "2018-01-22T22:48:23Z")
Might just be older versions of OSX? I’m on High Sierra and I see
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/4 "2018-01-22T22:57:57Z")
I can’t reproduce, also on sierra.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/5 "2018-01-22T23:02:43Z")
However, I copied the end of the title string:
```plaintext
irb(main):005:0> "⛳️".codepoints
=> [9971, 65039]
```
65039 is [https://codepoints.net/U+FE0F](https://codepoints.net/U+FE0F) which I believe shouldn’t be here.
If I copy the emoji from [https://emojipedia.org/flag-in-hole/](https://emojipedia.org/flag-in-hole/) and add it to the end of the title, save, and then edit and copy the end of the string:
```plaintext
irb(main):009:0> "⛳".codepoints
=> [9971]
```
So far my best guess it the macOS emoji picker is doing something it shouldn’t? Can you take a screen of what you see exactly please ? I might have a mac not on sierra, will try tomorrow.
Also I found this [Some emojis ending with `\ufe0f` are not completely matched · Issue #28 · mathiasbynens/emoji-regex · GitHub](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex/issues/28#issuecomment-321435043) which tend to go in my direction
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [24 בינואר, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/6 "2018-01-24T00:18:51Z")
Now I’m seeing this:
I’m on High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C205) with Safari 11.0.2 (13604.4.7.1.6)
Interestingly I don’t see the block character using Chrome.
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [24 בינואר, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/7 "2018-01-24T00:43:08Z")
I’ve reported this bug to Apple, rdar://36800472
I does it in a blank plain text file, so it’s definitely a macOS problem.
[emoji.txt](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/f/dfe4dd1476ffd6ee61dbb8f54d54aa4e30e33032.txt) (6 Bytes)
Thanks all
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### Author:  [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [24 בינואר, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/8 "2018-01-24T01:14:56Z")
What should we see inside the emoji.txt ?
I have the issue with Safari too, but not with TextEdit.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [24 בינואר, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-on-macos-has-an-extra-character-compared-to-ios/78646/9 "2018-01-24T09:18:15Z")