[HOLD for payment 2022-11-11] [$1500] some emojis are not displayed correctly as they should be - reported by Karim mostafa

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Action Performed:

1- open app
2- Type emoji's keyword in the chat box
3- observe the shape of the emoji appeared

Expected Result:

Emojis should appear in the normal shapes as they are supposed to

Actual Result:

Emojis appeared in different shape than they are supposed to

Workaround:

unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Desktop App
• Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.1.88-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

VID-20220720-WA0004.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @Karim-30 (Karim mostafa)
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1658404495570899

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (AutoAssignerTriage), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4749 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @aldo-expensify (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[parasharrajat]

Seems like this will be solved in #9551. We are already tackling this in #9123 since some time.

[aldo-expensify]

At least for them moment, #9551 is not solving it:

This can be reproduced in Chrome / web (macos). I have no idea where these emojis come from, are they characters in the font we use?

Update: maybe from here:

App/assets/emojis.js

Lines 8779 to 8784 in e3c8897

	code: '☪',
	keywords: [
	'islam',
	'muslim',
	'religion',
	],

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/8582 for more details.