# Failed emoji unicode -\> image conversion

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [7월 12, 2019, 10:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835 "2019-07-12T22:13:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [7월 12, 2019, 10:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/1 "2019-07-12T22:13:23Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Ratings instead of Hearts for Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ratings-instead-of-hearts-for-likes/122813/4):

> [@Ratings instead of Hearts for Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ratings-instead-of-hearts-for-likes/122813/4):
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> 0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣

Why this didn’t become this:

> [@Ratings instead of Hearts for Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ratings-instead-of-hearts-for-likes/122813/4):
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> 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2019, 12:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/2 "2019-07-13T00:29:32Z")

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0️⃣ hmm let’s see 1️⃣

Yeah that is odd, any thoughts @j.jaffeux

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2019, 8:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/5 "2019-07-13T08:27:06Z")

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Turns out that’s an old decision from @eviltrout [discourse/app/models/emoji.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/emoji.rb#L137)

Not sure about the reasons?

So 1️⃣ will work but 1️⃣ won’t get replaced.

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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: [7월 15, 2019, 2:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/6 "2019-07-15T14:07:14Z")

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I don’t remember the exact reason (this is why I am now bullish on more detailed commit messages) but I suspect that a lot of symbols were being converted that we didn’t want to. I wouldn’t mind removing it to see what happens. Maybe we can re-learn the reason 🙂

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [8월 6, 2019, 1:14오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/7 "2019-08-06T13:14:02Z")

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That should fix it:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7978](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7978)

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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [8월 8, 2019, 8:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-emoji-unicode-image-conversion/122835/8 "2019-08-08T08:09:33Z")

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