Weird emoji

Stream: Zulip meta

[Eric Wieser]

For me,:yellow_large_square: and :green_large_square: render almost as copyright symbols: :yellow_large_square:, :green_large_square:

Did someone copyright colored squares?

[Eric Wieser]

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[Johan Commelin]

For me they show what it says on the tin: a yellow square and a green one.

[Anne Baanen]

Looks like it's the first entry of the blobmoji sprite sheet, so maybe it's like a fallback for missing emoji?

[Mario Carneiro]

I also see the copyright symbols (on Ubuntu/FF)

[Mario Carneiro]

testing with a different emoji: :smile: :sad: :yellow_large_square: :green_large_square:

[Mario Carneiro]

It looks like the source of the issue is a webpacked file called google-blob-sprite.css, which contains:

.emoji-2639 { /* :sad: */
  background-position: 2.083% 33.333%;
}
.emoji-1f642 { /* :smile: */
  background-position: 50.000% 2.083%;
}

but doesn't have anything for .emoji-1f7e8 and .emoji-1f7e9 so it inherits the default background-position, which causes it to pull the top left sprite from the sheet like Anne suggests. I don't know where google-blob-sprite.css is being sourced from

[Eric Wieser]

Do we report this upstream, or assume a Zulip employee will just find this discussion?

[Kevin Buzzard]

(It's fine on my Android btw)

[Kevin Buzzard]

(but my Android has other font problems with some Unicode math symbols eg subscript numbers sometimes fail)

[Alya Abbott]

For those of you who are seeing the copyright symbol, are you using the Google Classic emoji set? If so, I think that's https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/21244.