# ✉️Use of emoji's causes weird title display in OSX
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [16.Июнь.2018 06:30:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009 "2018-06-16T06:30:13Z")
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 06:30:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/1 "2018-06-16T06:30:13Z")
Minor issue: when pasting in an emoji (not using the :emoji notation), I noticed the following issues:
- In Chrome and Safari, using an emoji at the start of the title will lead to overlapping and unreadable characters.
- Safari inserts a ‘square’ character after an emoji
- Firefox removes the space between the emoji and the rest of the title
(Tested on OSX)
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 06:40:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/2 "2018-06-16T06:40:38Z")
Like this?
and this
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 06:41:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/3 "2018-06-16T06:41:21Z")
Exactly. I figured the post would show it for itself 😉
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 06:43:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/4 "2018-06-16T06:43:43Z")
using Version 67.0.3396.87 on Mac Os it did 😃
Looks fine on firefox 60.0.2 (64-bit) using Mac OS
My post was just meant to confirm your bug…
Have a nice day 😉
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 06:45:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/5 "2018-06-16T06:45:23Z")
👍
Here’s a screenshot of Firefox 61.0b14 (notice the missing space after the envelope)
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 07:36:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/6 "2018-06-16T07:36:34Z")
So you’re suggesting that Discourse strip out emojis from topic titles so that browsers that don’t support certain emojis won’t render buggy titles?
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 07:52:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/7 "2018-06-16T07:52:17Z")
Well, I wasn’t suggesting anything yet, just reporting that I observe an issue when users enter legitimate content 😉
It’s interesting though that titles WILL display correctly if you enter emoji’s using the :emoji notation. However, the emoji picker is not activated for titles, making it harder to use them there.
I believe that emoji’s can be useful for certain topics, so I wouldn’t just strip them out.
So perhaps:
- Enable the emoji picker for titles
- Process ‘directly entered’ emojis in the same way as ‘picked’ emoji’s
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 21:03:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/9 "2018-06-16T21:03:18Z")
> [@bartv](#):
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> the emoji picker is not activated for titles
Thanks, I have never tried to have any emoji in a title so I would have never noticed that.
The emoji picker is not activated in the title input when a topic is created. Yet it is activated in the title edit input. For example, if you click the edit pencil icon next to the topic title and start typing a colon, the emoji picker will display.
Although I have reservations about expecting Discourse to map all non-supported emoji codepoints to supported codepoints just so browsers won’t display buggy titles, I do think it would be good to have the emoji picker activate during topic creation.
Edge case and low priority perhaps, but an inconsistency nonetheless.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 21:23:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/10 "2018-06-16T21:23:42Z")
Isn’t this a duplicate of [https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-emoji-in-safari-mac-ios/59034](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-emoji-in-safari-mac-ios/59034) ?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 21:28:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/11 "2018-06-16T21:28:55Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Isn’t this a duplicate
To a great extent, yes. A difference is that the emoji picker is not available for the title input during topic creation so it is more difficult to not have buggy emoji titles.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16.Июнь.2018 21:30:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-of-emojis-causes-weird-title-display-in-osx/90009/12 "2018-06-16T21:30:33Z")