Click-to-ping someone with an emoji in their name doesn't create a pill

[turt2live]

Description

Blurred for privacy where possible. Red emphasis is to highlight the issue.

Steps to reproduce

• Have an emoji in your name
• Click your name to ping yourself

Log: not sent

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser)
• Browser: Chrome 58
• OS: Windows 10
• URL: riot.im/develop

[lampholder]

There's something about the ☎️ emoji that is being handled differently to the 🕹 emoji (that I randomly had as part of my display name before).

The RTE is certainly capable of displaying ☎️, as evidenced if you type ☎️, but it's not rendering in the editor when pasted in. It does appear in the timeline though.

To reproduce, copy the below, paste it into the new RTE, note the absense of the telephone in the editor, press send, note the presence of the telephone in the timeline.

Why can I see the joystick (🕹) but not the classy old-skool telephone (☎️)?

[lukebarnard1]

This is probably because emojis have entities attached to them to make them immutable.

[turt2live]

They now show up, however they are not pilled

[ara4n]

i think this has been fixed in matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#1890 if someone can check (i can't find a good one to test against)

[t3chguy]

Yup!