element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Emoji names sometimes have dashes and sometimes have underscores

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A-Composer A-Emoji O-Uncommon S-Tolerable T-Enhancement Z-Upstream
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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Make all emoji names have the same format

Example: At the moment, the Australia flag (`:flag-au:`) has dashes but the majority of emoji names use underscores instead, This is also the case on other chat apps such as Discord.
#### Why would you like to do it?
Because it would make more sense and be less confusing to remember the names
#### How would you like to achieve it?
Change the flag `-` in the emoji names to `_`

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

_No response_

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Search the repository for `flag-au` and the emoji-name definitions; start with the data or lookup entry point that contains the dash-form names. Check how existing tests cover emoji aliases, then confirm that all affected flag names use underscores consistently.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
content, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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