[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64318: ↗ should not be replaced by Twemoji

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#64318: ↗ should not be replaced by Twemoji
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 Reporter:  Joen          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  7.0.1
Component:  Emoji         |     Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |     Focuses:
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Changes (by desrosj):

 * milestone:  7.1 => 7.0.1


Old description:

> At present, if you type ↗, a unicode glyph, in a WordPress post, it is
> converted to a Twemoji: ↗️. But those are two different things, very
> intentionally so, just like → is different from ➡️.
>
> At present if you want to avoid having the ↗ glyph replaced with a
> twemoji, you either have to disable the set entirely, or add a CSS class,
> `wp-exclude-emoji` in order to safeguard the glyph.
>
> From some conversations with others, this replacement of ↗ (and
> presumably also south east, south west, north west arrows) appears to be
> a recent change in WordPress, not present in 6.8 and happening sometime
> between September 3 and now.

New description:

 At present, if you type , a unicode glyph, in a WordPress post, it is
 converted to a Twemoji: . But those are two different things, very
 intentionally so, just like → is different from .

 At present if you want to avoid having the  glyph replaced with a twemoji,
 you either have to disable the set entirely, or add a CSS class, `wp-
 exclude-emoji` in order to safeguard the glyph.

 From some conversations with others, this replacement of  (and presumably
 also south east, south west, north west arrows) appears to be a recent
 change in WordPress, not present in 6.8 and happening sometime between
 September 3 and now.

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Comment:

 A [https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji/releases/tag/v17.0.3 new version of
 Twemoji has been released] which [https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji-
 parser/pull/12 includes a fix for this issue].

 A full list of changes can be found on GitHub:
 https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji/compare/v17.0.2...v17.0.3.

 I've created a pull request with the update for testing, and the issue
 seems resolved based on my testing.

 Moving this to `7.0.1` since this fixes an undesirable user-facing issue.

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