# 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: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@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")

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> [@connrrr](#):
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> 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. - `&#9825;`. ❤~~

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