Hello! I frequent a forum that switched to Discourse back in April. I used to leave the U+2661 white heart suit unicode character in my posts but since the switch when I do that it turns into the red heart emoji. I don’t want the emoji. I want my unicode lol. I’ve tried leading with a backslash to prevent the formatting but it does nothing. Is there another way around this?
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I guess that forum has that unicode on watched words perhaps? I can do it here and on my instance.
maybe I should read the post after I see it in the previewer lol
you can also use the HTML equivalent that markdown recognizes. - ♡
.
You could use escape it with backticks: ♡
I do recognise it’s a bit annoying when it autoconverts
♢ ♤ ♧
♠ ♡ ♢ ♣ ♤ ♥ ♦ ♧
Maybe use an alternative heart that isn’t mapped to the Emoji?
Glyph | Description | HTML code |
---|---|---|
❦ | U+2766 FLORAL HEART | ❦ |
❧ | U+2767 ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET | ❧ |
☙ | U+2619 REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET | ☙ |
❥ | U+2765 ROTATED HEAVY BLACK HEART BULLET | ❥ or ❥ |
🎔 | U+1F394 HEART WITH TIP ON THE LEFT | 🎔 |
I have no idea. I insert the heart with the character viewer in macOS and it auto-converts when I hit post. I was trying to find a way to convey what unicode character I was talking about because I knew it would probably auto-convert here and no one would be able to see it.
That’s the only method I’ve found to keep it visible but I also want to be able to add color tags to the character.
For the purposes of the post I was making, it had to be the empty outline of a heart.
Is there really no way around this? Why is backslashing just completely ignored in its case?
Hello
There are some other you can try.
Discourse Icon Theme Component
With this theme component you can display icons in posts.
I mean the is maybe a good option.
[wrap=icon id=far-heart][/wrap]
Plus you can add a watched word for this to easy replacement in /admin/customize/watched_words/action/replace
For example:
far-heart
word replace to [wrap=icon id=far-heart][/wrap]
Make sure to check in the HTML checkbox.
The second one is probably not what you want because it globally change the emoji for everyone.
Same like the first option: Use watched word replace to change the :heart:
to ♡
.
I would prefer the first option.
Thank you. Can I color tag the icons?
If not, where would I put in a feature request to have formatting of ♡
into emoji prevented with a backslash? This is that important to me lol.
I moved it to Feature
Are you sure [wrap]
is allowed? I can’t make that work and AI claims it is not allowed.
Wrap is allowed by theme components, it is allow-listed in core, will see where ask got the wrong idea from
I kind of solved it out. I continued conversation and then it explained that can be expanded using plugins (or components). So at first it gave me minimum needed answer.
Anyway, [wrap]
doesn’t seems to work, for me.