# Emoticon auto-completion in french

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** emoji\
**Created:** [2015年十月27日 15:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971 "2015-10-27T15:39:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Baptiste\_Michaud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/baptiste_michaud/32/116359_2.png) [@Baptiste\_Michaud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Baptiste_Michaud)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月27日 15:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/1 "2015-10-27T15:39:24Z")

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Hi,

Many of my users are complaining about the emoticon autocompletion.  
In french, we put a space before the semicolon, and use a lot the semicolon to start quote or list.

So, each time, somebody type “blablabla :[enter]”, he end up with a 😄 instead of a paragraph.

**How about adding a configurable delay before the emoticon auto-completion ?**

ps: here is my customized discourse [http://www.numerama.com/discussions/](http://www.numerama.com/discussions/)

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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月27日 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/2 "2015-10-27T15:45:24Z")

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I’ll see if this is something I can fix in my new version of the discourse editor.

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月27日 15:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/3 "2015-10-27T15:55:45Z")

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> [@Baptiste\_Michaud](#):
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> How about adding a configurable delay before the emoticon auto-completion ?

Not sure adding a delay is a good idea.

It would be better to fix the way we trigger the emoji popup, ie. only trigger if there is at least 1 non-whitespace character following the `:`.

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**Author:** ![Baptiste\_Michaud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/baptiste_michaud/32/116359_2.png) [@Baptiste\_Michaud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Baptiste_Michaud)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月28日 09:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/5 "2015-10-28T09:47:24Z")

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> [@zogstrip](#):
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> only trigger if there is at least 1 non-whitespace

That could also be a valid suggestion, but I feel that, it need to trigger filtering and english people will want direct suggestion of all emoji not only emoji starting by :[character].

Any way an option like “start emoji suggestion after” X characters, could be perfect !

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015年十月28日 10:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/6 "2015-10-28T10:44:36Z")

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> [@Baptiste\_Michaud](#):
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> Any way an option like “start emoji suggestion after” X characters, could be perfect !

Yeah that’s what I had in mind 😉 That way it can be customized to fit whatever locale your Discourse is in.

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**Author:** ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)\
**Post date:** [2025年十二月4日 11:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-auto-completion-in-french/34971/7 "2025-12-04T11:37:05Z")

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