# How do I prevent unicode heart from become ❤️ when posting?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850 "2024-11-06T21:49:56Z")
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### Author:  [@connrrr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/connrrr)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/1 "2024-11-06T21:49:56Z")
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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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/2 "2024-11-06T22:11:56Z")
> [@connrrr](#):
>
> U+2661
Hi there 👋 and welcome to Discourse Meta 🙂
~~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. - `♡`. ❤~~
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/3 "2024-11-06T22:22:16Z")
You could use escape it with backticks: `♡`
I do recognise it’s a bit annoying when it autoconverts ☹
♠ ❤ ♢ ♣ ♤ ❤ ♦ ♧
```plaintext
♠ ♡ ♢ ♣ ♤ ♥ ♦ ♧
```
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/4 "2024-11-06T22:26:21Z")
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 | `🎔` |
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### Author:  [@connrrr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/connrrr)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/5 "2024-11-06T22:41:22Z")
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.
> [@supermathie](#):
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> You could use escape it with backticks: `♡`
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.
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### Author:  [@connrrr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/connrrr)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/7 "2024-11-06T22:47:55Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/8 "2024-11-06T23:45:37Z")
Hello 👋
There are some other you can try.
[Discourse Icon Theme Component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-icon/143374)
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.
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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 `♡`.
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I would prefer the first option.
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### Author:  [@connrrr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/connrrr)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/10 "2024-11-07T16:24:36Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/11 "2024-11-07T17:17:03Z")
I moved it to #Contribute > Feature
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/12 "2024-11-07T18:45:38Z")
> [@Don](#):
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> `far-heart` word replace to `[wrap=icon id=far-heart][/wrap]`
Are you sure `[wrap]` is allowed? I can’t make that work and AI claims it is not allowed.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/13 "2024-11-07T19:55:22Z")
Wrap is allowed by theme components, it is allow-listed in core, will see where ask got the wrong idea from
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-prevent-unicode-heart-from-become-when-posting/334850/14 "2024-11-07T19:58:40Z")
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.