Copy/pasting an emoji might insert an image instead of an emoji char

CyberGene

I've been having this issue with some users on my forum that when they quote other posts (one of them said he used copy/paste), and when there is an emoji character in the text they copied, then the paste would not insert the emoji character, but would rather copy the entire image (the asset, I believe Twemoji) and then pasting it would upload it through the FoF Upload and insert it as a link to the just uploaded image... It's ridiculous, since it's not only inefficient but also the image is not scaled down but is in full size and displaces the text. AFAIK, this is Chrome on Android. I don't have ways to test it though, but I know that the Flarum developers use Android, so can you please test it and see why that happens and how this can be prevented?

CyberGene

Here's more info. The problem appears when copy/pasting text from another post that contains an emoji. Also, the embedded Emoji extension in Flarum is enabled and it uses the Twemoji set if I'm not mistaken.

Here's a screenshot tat demonstrates the problem:

The first post uses the quote functionality and there's no problem. However, the second post uses copy/paste instead and it seems the emoji is copied as a URL to the image instead.

Here's the raw content of that second post:

> @"CyberGene"#p29714 need to check something ![🙂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14/assets/72x72/1f642.png)

This is just selecting the word 'need', then tapping the Quote button, then typing this text below.

Then I selected and copied 'to check something ![🙂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14/assets/72x72/1f642.png)' and pasted it inline in this sentence and ditto in the quote area.

Hope this helps 😉,

HZ

clarkwinkelmann

Can you share your php flarum info output ?

I assume that problem only happens with FoF Upload enabled ? That's probably where the problem is.

I can't look at this right now but I remember the mentions extension has logic specifically to set emojis correctly from quotes, but maybe Upload takes priority and handles the text before Mentions can.

CyberGene

clarkwinkelmann I think the FoF Upload may not be the cause here because in the above example it’s not involved, the copy/paste just uses the Twemoji URL-s when copying the emoji and then the paste posts the emoji as an image to that URL. FoF Upload is not used in that example, maybe I was wrong about FoF upload in the first place. I believe the reason is some browser/OS combinations don’t copy the emojis as characters but as URL-s to the emoji rendered image.

CyberGene

clarkwinkelmann Can you share your php flarum info output ?

Flarum core: 1.8.5
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clarkwinkelmann I assume that problem only happens with FoF Upload enabled ? That's probably where the problem is.

Apologies, that was a mistake on my side, FoF Upload is not involved. A member on my forum liked the side effect and uploaded those larger emojis through FoF Upload and used them intentionally which misled me, however the main issue of copy/pasting emojis which on some OS/browsers results in pasting links to the Twemoji images still remains. One confirmed combination is Chrome on Android. I don't have one to test though...

Here's for example how an emoji will be pasted as (raw text) when copy/pasted:
![](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14/assets/72x72/1f642.png)