# Uncode Emoji incorrectly converted to text inside code blocks

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncode-emoji-incorrectly-converted-to-text-inside-code-blocks/37617
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncode-emoji-incorrectly-converted-to-text-inside-code-blocks/37617 "2016-01-07T23:21:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncode-emoji-incorrectly-converted-to-text-inside-code-blocks/37617/1 "2016-01-07T23:21:13Z")

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This is a single Unicode Emoji character

😀

This is a single Unicode Emoji character inside a code span

`😀`

This is a single Unicode Emoji character inside a code block

```
😀

```

The latter two should not be converted to text `:grinning:` as they are inside code and should be considered literal characters.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncode-emoji-incorrectly-converted-to-text-inside-code-blocks/37617/2 "2016-01-08T14:04:50Z")

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The joy of hoisting… and 🍝-code dialects.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncode-emoji-incorrectly-converted-to-text-inside-code-blocks/37617/3 "2016-03-23T06:46:35Z")

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