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When a user adds :feet: to a task, chat, etc., expecting 👣, it shows up as 🐾.

This seems to be a thing in some emoji libraries including GitHub's, but it's really confusing!

@citrusella commented on Fri May 27 2016

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• Browser: Firefox 46.0.1
• OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Description

Raw URLs (not those created in Markdown like this, in all but one instance I've seen) convert basic emoji used in them to the image. The links still work as intended so this is really a display issue more than anything. I've seen at least two instances of http:// converting to http::confused:/, one of which was actually in what appeared to be correct Markdown format (though maybe there was an accidental space in there so perhaps not). The http:// thing doesn't seem to happen reliably, though; I've seen many a time it hasn't happened. A message I posted in the Wizards of the Wiki guild contains this problem with a different emoji in a different place in the URL. The URL in the message is http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences but it displays as http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/Special:stuck_out_tongue:references ...though it still links to the right place, as I've approximated using Markdown here.

Console Errors

Nothing.

@habitrpguser commented on Fri May 27 2016

I'd like to second that! While it's especially weird in URLs, unintentional smileys happen to me all the time (probably because I'm using parentheses and colons a lot). I don't remember how often I typed some combination of letters and punctuation and ended up with an unintentional smiley, and had to repost (usually with an added blank space). Also sometimes I like the look of ASCII smileys better than the picture, and/or have a hard time predicting which picture they will turn into without extensive testing and memorizing. (For instance, when typing : and ), I think of smiling with a closed mouth, and the resulting 😃 looks too much like laughing, in my opinion, and all the available closed-mouthed ones have an added meaning, for example 😊 ☺️ 😋 😌 😏 ). Because of all this, I don't like the automatic smiley processing as it is now, and would like to either turn it back the way it was, or have the possibility to opt out of it, or at least have a way to escape it. (Maybe there are working escapes for that already, but I didn't take the time to test and find them yet). Anyway I think I'm not the only one who finds it more a nuisance than a great new feature, and thought I'd give that feedback here. (If it stays as it is, I can live with it, it's not a big deal - I just liked it better the way it was before that added smiley processing.)

Explain some decisions about emojis added and removed.

I'd like to use these for my breakfast / cooking related tasks.

The :knife: emoji displays a broken image icon.

When visiting the URL https://s3.amazonaws.com/habitica-assets/cdn/emoji/knife.png you see:

<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>1027003EF6ED2A97</RequestId>
<HostId>
Y5MJHwMUeYiz84g80mE9/ydA/6OdgM4H5/4l5xqS1d92PQpHUuvqdT/qTfx7y/WP
</HostId>
</Error>

Something about the shortcuts code did not play nice with minified code on Firefox.

It's been disabled. Investigate and re-enable.