I would like to learn how to create a tag with name="🎥". If I try to to add such a tag via interface it is removed immediately. If I create and assign the tag via rails console, it will be shown and can be selected by clicking but it will not be included in any tag search or selector.

Maybe have a look at this topic? [תמונה] Emoji in tag names Feature I’m creating a multi-language forum, there will be people from different nationalities on it. I’m thinking of using tags for showing in which language is a topic. I thought it would be more visual to use …

Hm. I still don’t understand the problem after having read the topic. If I choose “:movie_camera:movie” then I’m able to search and assign the tag via UI. So it seems that emojis are stripped in searches and a pure emoji string therefore is not a valid search term? My conjecture is that the trans…

What you’re trying to do will currently taking some hacking - there is no straightforward way to do it. I think there is a legit feature request in here - to allow tags to be configured with an emoji and also to allow determining whether both tag text and tag emoji are displayed, or just tag emoji. …

You may try doing it manually, not sure if it works but yeah try giving it a shot: tag = Tag.find_by(name: ‘movie_camera’) tag.update!(name: “:movie_camera:”)

Tried that (see above). It is not possible to assign such a tag via the interface. As a user in our forum noted, searching for emoji in UI is quite difficult, so I like @tobiaseigen ’s advice on hiding the tag name in the UI (perhaps limited to special places) while using it in the backend. [תמו…

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 21 בנובמבר,‏ 2024,‏ 4:09pm 2

Maybe have a look at this topic?

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