Trivial observation about the champagne emoji

zogstrip · March 27, 2026, 4:57pm

Added a validation step so we’re 100% sure we’re not adding aliases to non-existing emojis

github.com/discourse/discourse-emojis

FIX: Remove phantom emoji aliases and add validation (#11)

main ← fix/remove-phantom-emoji-aliases

merged 11:33PM - 27 Mar 26 UTC

ZogStriP

+16 -14

Some EMOJI_ALIASES keys (e.g. "champagne", "cheese", "hotdog") are not real emoj…i names — they don't exist in emojis.json and have no corresponding image files. Each of these keys already appears as an alias value for the actual emoji elsewhere in the hash (e.g. "bottle_with_popping_cork" => ["champagne"]), making the phantom entries redundant. Their presence causes the emoji picker to register names that can't resolve to an image, so typing `:champagne:` fails even though `:cork:` works fine. This removes all 14 phantom entries and adds a validation step to the `emojis:db` rake task that aborts generation if any phantom alias keys are detected in the future. https://meta.discourse.org/t/399338

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Trivial observation about the champagne emoji

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