# When embedding a post into social networks, emojies makes no sense, especially in non-English text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年七月2日 08:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704 "2015-07-02T08:12:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [2015年七月2日 08:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/1 "2015-07-02T08:12:09Z")

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Please take a look at the following screenshot - I’m trying to embed a topic into [VK.com](http://VK.com), a well-known Russian-speaking social network:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/71a56e24f25f1b71a841efbbb5a8deb9063ba782.png) 

Both in the title and in the topic body, there are text versions of emoji, e.g. `[sparkling_heart]`.

It does not make any sense and it looks weird. Can we remove these text versions of emoji icons, as whenever I embed topics, it really makes no sense, especially for topics in Russian. Also, it spoils the first few sentences, which makes the text not attractive at all.

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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:** [2015年七月2日 08:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/2 "2015-07-02T08:38:57Z")

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Hmm, I could see a case for stripping Emoji from the embed content. Did you want to submit a PR for it?

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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [2015年七月2日 08:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/3 "2015-07-02T08:53:31Z")

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Would happily do, but I’m not familiar with Ruby nor have Discourse dev environment installed to try fixing this.

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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2015年七月7日 07:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/4 "2015-07-07T07:19:39Z")

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Another possibility is converting to the proper unicode code point. A lot of stuff these days has native emoji support.

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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:** [2018年四月18日 08:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/5 "2018-04-18T08:27:56Z")

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The emoji words are now stripped from slugs as well.

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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:** [2018年四月18日 08:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-embedding-a-post-into-social-networks-emojies-makes-no-sense-especially-in-non-english-text/30704/6 "2018-04-18T08:28:01Z")

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