Certain emojis display a rectangle after the image. Does anyone know the cause for this? I’ve attached two screenshots below. One shows the emojis when writing a new post, the second what happens after posting. [image] I’m running version 2.0.0 beta 6 of Discourse. The emoji set is Apple/Interna…

AFAIK it is a difference with the iOS emoji. I have noticed the same “squares” effect with other applications as well. For example, these are from the Discourse emoji picker: :owl: :tea: :hotel: :french_guiana: While these are from the iPad keyboard selector: :control_knobs: :japanese_dolls: …

Thanks, just tested. Indeed, the Discourse emoji work as expected, without any additional rectangles. Out of curiosity, is this some kind of Unicode issue where the two systems don’t know how to interpret the codes?

I just came across this today when posting :heart: :orange_heart: :yellow_heart: (this is actually from a Mac now, this is not iOS specific, it is Emoji code → Emoji conversion) @pmusaraj can you have a look at this? Also see: What is the problem with PrettyText.markdown call?

I think there are two separate issues here. The first one is that sometimes when using multiple emojis without spaces, some of them won’t convert correctly. Could this be due to: [image] What is the problem with PrettyText.markdown call? We only allow emoji expansion after a punctuation or spac…

It turns out the two issues are related. Some emojis include the Unicode U+FE0F character, which is the VARIATION SELECTOR-16 selector , an “invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation”. Since the preceding code point is turned into an …

Emojis selected on iOS displaying additional rectangles

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Mittineague (Mittineague) April 25, 2018, 7:15pm 4

I’m fairly certain it is, yes. And I’m thinking that Discourse vs. iOS emojis was a missing bit of information in this earlier topic

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Emojis selected on iOS displaying additional rectangles

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