It seems like there’s a bug when emojis are pasted right after text. Edit: it turned out to be a setting — see below. To reproduce: Go here and copy the emoji onto your clipboard. Make a comment below and write some text (like “testing”) and paste two emojis directly after the text without any spaces. It should look like this in the editor and preview window: [emoji bug] Once the post is submitted, the first emoji will be converted to text, like :fire:. Here’s the output: text:fire::fire: Edit: I’ve reproduced it in three Discourse forums, including this one.

Hello :waving_hand: There is a site setting which prevents this. By default this setting is disabled. enable inline emoji translation Description: Enables translation for inline emojis (without any space or punctuation before) On my forum I’ve enabled this setting and it works in posts too. Disabled [The image displays a text message with the phrase "Hello:fire:" and a red fire emoji. (Captioned by AI)] Enabled [Screenshot_20240803_062458]

Emoji rendering problem

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supermathie (Michael Brown) January 7, 2025, 1:27am 5

(see Inline emoji turned into text - #6 by supermathie for a diagnosis of the problem)

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Emoji rendering problem

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