secondlife / secondlife/viewer
traditional symbols among Emoji choices output as emoticons in group tags
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Description
We love putting colorful emoji into our group tags, but the basic ones for which there has always been ASCII are still displaying as part of the text and not as Emoji.
Case in point my friend wants red hearts. Long ago she put ASCII hearts into her group tag. the : heart : emoji is giving the same result, as are the card suits' heart aka ": hearts :".
Screenshot shows her using what should be a red heart and for comparison another type of emoji heart.
We are using Firestorm but I asked a friend with SL Viewer to try and the same thing happened to her.
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Research direction
Reproduce the group-tag emoji behavior in Firestorm and the SL Viewer using traditional heart and card-suit symbols. Trace the viewer's group-tag text and emoji rendering path; done means these symbols render as emoji rather than ASCII emoticons in both viewers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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