Currently Discourse converts certain unicode characters into a plain ASCII version of the character (called shortcodes), i.e. (one character U+00270A) is converted to :fist: (i.e. 6 characters). Sometimes I see the character, sometimes I see the ASCII text like this. (e.g. my current discourse profile)
Can this text conversion be turned off please? It’s also done in the emails as well.
Is there any other automatic text conversion that’s enabled here?
Yes this is me being pedantic about text characters! I’m sure you’ll tell me to go away
As far as I’ve been able to find, this is a discourse feature to allow easily pick an emoji when you don’t have an emoji selector on your keyboard
That’s why depending on how the poster created the emoji, you will see the unicode (probably someone with a keyboard emoji picker) or the shortcode (using the discourse emoji picker).
That’s mostly talking about removing images from emails to reduce spam likelyhood. But I don’t want images removed. II just want the textual characters I enter to be saved and not mandled… Is that possible to change?
We already have the “Strip images from emails having size less than 2800 Bytes” option enabled (default).
Please note we do not have the “bandwidth” to support custom patches on discourse. Please push these sorts of requests upstream if you need new features. Check out https://meta.discourse.org/