[$250] Web - Chat - Many emojis broken in emoji picker and chat history

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.14-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
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Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Log in to New Expensify
2. Navigate to a conversation
3. Open the emoji picker
4. Scroll down the list verifying each emoji is rendered correctly
5. Select any of the broken emojis and send it.
6. Enter broken emoji code in compose box, e.g. 🧌

Expected Result:

All emojis in emoji picker, chat history and suggestion list should be correctly rendered

Actual Result:

Many emojis are broken in emoji picker, chat history, suggestions and their tooltips are blank
Example emoji codes: 🧌, 🩶, 🫄
Issue is probably Windows only

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6556738_1722289238118.2024-07-29_23-36-47.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @paultsimura

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @chiragsalian (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp

[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

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[chiragsalian]

Not related to web-e repo. Clearing deployblocker label.

[chiragsalian]

Not sure if this is blocker worthy. I cannot reproduce it.

Maybe the issue is only on windows as mentioned in the title. @stitesExpensify do you have any insight about this issue? if not i was going to mark it as external.

[chiragsalian]

Oh whoops i missed that it was already discussed here. Looks like we might be reverting the offending PR.