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Update Emoji Datasource and fix uniform rendering across platforms
Details
- Some of the emojis were not showing up properly on all platforms because they were text type emojis. Hence we replaced the datasource.
- This includes adding more emojis to our database too.
Fixed Issues
$ https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues/10356
PROPOSAL: https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues/10356#issuecomment-1250226783
Tests
- Open any chat
- Click on the Emoji action on the composer
- Select a problematic emoji like Coffin or Peace
- Ensure the emoji is colored in all the platforms (Web, Desktop, mWeb, Mobile apps)
- Click on the different emojis and ensure they render well
- Keep submitting 1-2 emojis, and see they're updated in the Frequently used Emojis
- [ ] Verify that no errors appear in the JS console
QA Steps
- Open any chat
- Click on the Emoji action on the composer
- Select a problematic emoji like Coffin or Peace
- Ensure the emoji is colored in all the platforms (Web, Desktop, mWeb, Mobile apps)
- Click on the different emojis and ensure they render well
- Keep submitting 1-2 emojis, and see they're updated in the Frequently used Emojis
- [ ] Verify that no errors appear in the JS console
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@tgolen @mananjadhav I have made additional changes so that the :emojicode:
searching logic works as expected.
Also there is one test failing because we're checking if the emoji matches a regex. I am not sure why we do that? We are maintaining two lists of Emojis - emoji.js and a regex. Do you want me to fix this?
@tgolen @mananjadhav The new emojis might not work with the existing regex, and we will have to update the isSingleEmoji
function.
Take the following example of "face_in_clouds:
emoji. The emoji image is πΆβπ«οΈ but the regex match is: [ 'πΆ', 'β', 'π«']
a composite emoji.
@tgolen @mananjadhav Apologies for too many messages. I finally found the problem.
The tests were failing due to the following reasons:
-
isSingleEmoji
wasn't comprehensive enough to cover the composite emojis. Also, this isn't used anywhere in code except for the Tests. So I've removed it. - Hence, I've replaced all the
isSingleEmoji
calls withcontainsOnlyEmojis
. - There was one fix required for male/female emojis to work with
containsOnlyEmojis
- The emojis in
EmojiTest
weren't correct, (for*
,1
)
@tgolen @mananjadhav Apologies for too many messages. I finally found the problem.
No worries @akshayasalvi
isSingleEmoji
wasn't comprehensive enough to cover the composite emojis. Also, this isn't used anywhere in code except for the Tests. So I've removed it.
This is fine. Thanks for pointing out.
- Hence, I've replaced all the
isSingleEmoji
calls withcontainsOnlyEmojis
.
Thanks for updating
- There was one fix required for male/female emojis to work with
containsOnlyEmojis
Can you highlight what you mean by the fix here?
- The emojis in
EmojiTest
weren't correct, (for*
,1
)
Can you highlight what you mean by weren't correct?
Sorry folks for all the unnecessary notifications.
- There was one fix required for male/female emojis to work with
containsOnlyEmojis
Can you highlight what you mean by the fix here?
@mananjadhav All the person/male/female emojis have 200d
invisible character endpoint. Please check here for reference
- The emojis in
EmojiTest
weren't correct, (for*
,1
)Can you highlight what you mean by weren't correct?

The numerics went sent as a single emoji weren't getting capitalized and their tests were failing. I am guess its because of the dataset change.
I accidentally removed @mananjadhav from the review, by request a second review from @tgolen
@mananjadhav PR updated
Thanks @akshayasalvi for quick changes on the feedback. This was a helpful issue, as we've got many new emojis added.
Appreciate you putting efforts in the code cleanup and fixing the tests.
@tgolen all yours.
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/** comment above it */
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are necessary to be bound (i.e. avoidthis.submit = this.submit.bind(this);
ifthis.submit
is never passed to a component event handler likeonClick
) - [x] All JSX used for rendering exists in the render method
- [x] The component has the minimum amount of code necessary for its purpose, and it is broken down into smaller components in order to separate concerns and functions
- [x] If a new CSS style is added I verified that:
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- [x] The style can't be created with an existing StyleUtils function (i.e.
StyleUtils.getBackgroundAndBorderStyle(themeColors.componentBG
)
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