Emojis in title aren't alway displayed in yearly review tables

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The yearly review table sometimes fails to display emojis in titles, specifically those represented by short codes. Canapin observed this issue and suspects it is related to the plugin’s handling of emoji short codes, as Unicode emojis are displayed correctly. nathank suggests refactoring the plugin to output Markdown instead of HTML, which could resolve this and other issues.

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So, I noticed this in the last yearly review:

Since I often use Windows built-in emoji selector, I thought the first link, which is a topic I made, showed the emoji as it used the Unicode emoji character. But if I copy-paste the table here:

User Topic Score
Why isn’t Discourse more frequently recommended as a “community platform”? 29
Looking for feedback on my new Discourse site :sparkles: 28
Shadowbans are bad for discourse, and here’s why 26
Now I’ve got Chat :speech_balloon: what do I do with Personal Messages? 26
Feedback on my forum, BlackIron 23

The emoji :speech_balloon: is properly displayed.

My guess is that this is a slight issue with the plugin itself when handling emoji short codes, while Unicode emojis work out-of-the-box in this context, but I could be wrong.

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Perhaps this displays my ignorance, but is it time to refactor this plugin so it outputs markdown instead of HTML? This is one of a few problems that would be fixed by doing so.

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