# Emoticons should not count toward the post character minimum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Septembre 26, 2014, 1:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503 "2014-09-26T13:02:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Septembre 26, 2014, 9:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticons-should-not-count-toward-the-post-character-minimum/20503/9 "2014-09-26T21:16:47Z")

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Still this is whack a mole. I don’t really consider this a bug. Where do you stop. Rogue unicode? Single image?

Each one of these additional heuristics is really a feature.

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