hmmm that is by design and a slightn bug. ❤️:phone: and a:phone: and ث:phone: are all not meant to expand emoji. We only allow emoji expansion after a punctuation or space.
The autocomplete throws stuff off a bit and we should fix that. I don’t want to put lots of special case logic here for mixed emoji central.
I think if the emoji-image converter greedily grabs VS16 (as well as the force-not-emoji variation selector) it’ll solve the problem, because you’ll end up with a </img>❤️ right?