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Keith N
Keith N
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April 12, 2019
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Links and Emojis

  • April 12, 2019
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Hello all,

A member on our community was sharing links to a few online radio stations which include the characters ":" and "8" right next to one another.

If we put them together we get an interesting crooked smile emoji. 🙄

This, in turn, breaks the link and makes it unusable. Putting it in a code block or in quote, doesn't seem to do the trick either.

example:
"http://stream2.friskyradio.com:8000/frisky_mp3_hi" will appear like "http://stream2.friskyradio.com:rolling_eyes:000/frisky_mp3_hi"

I notice that the inSided community is rocking the new branded templates and along with it are a whole new world of emojis. Is this something that is just isolated to the old emoji implementation and should work itself out?
    Best answer by daniel.boon
    Hi Keith,

    We believe that the :8 emoji problem is exclusive to your custom platform and should be resolved when you migrate to our SaaS platform.

    Drew is correct - the problem of emojification in actual URLs is resolved (so the links no longer break); however, we have not applied a fix for rendering the 'text' of hyperlinks without emoji.

    The emojification problem in URLs, as well as resolving the emojification within code etc, is on the development team's backlog to resolve.

    2 replies

    Drew C.
    Drew C.
    Helper ⭐️
    April 12, 2019
    An actual link shouldn't be doing that anymore - I submitted it as a bug that was reported to me as fixed on March 20th.

    I submitted another bug request to stop "emojification" of text in code tags on March 29th, which was forwarded to development.

    Our users post MAC addresses from time to time and they're also emojified. It happened to me here on inSpired a few days ago when trying to share a formatting idea.

    IMO, an emoji should only be displayed when there is whitespace on each side of the : character, or when it begins as the first character of a new line.
    Community Manager // NetApp
      daniel.boon
      daniel.boonAnswer
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      April 15, 2019
      Hi Keith,

      We believe that the :8 emoji problem is exclusive to your custom platform and should be resolved when you migrate to our SaaS platform.

      Drew is correct - the problem of emojification in actual URLs is resolved (so the links no longer break); however, we have not applied a fix for rendering the 'text' of hyperlinks without emoji.

      The emojification problem in URLs, as well as resolving the emojification within code etc, is on the development team's backlog to resolve.
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