1773422 - IRC overeagerly interprets text as emoticons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 954572

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

[michael]

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Steps to reproduce:

I received a message in IRC with ":s" as a substring. In this case, the message was: "no, tokio::spawn and tokio::task::spawn are the same"

This bug is also triggered when you send anything with ":s" as a substring in IRC. I don't know what other IM services are affected.

Actual results:

The message was rendered as "no, tokio:😕pawn and tokio::task:😕pawn are the same"

Expected results:

It should have rendered as "no, tokio::spawn and tokio::task::spawn are the same"

So there's 2 issues here:

1. Clearly the pattern for recognizing emoticons is too eager. If it's looking for ":s" then it should look for it surrounded by whitespace or maybe a comma or period. But ":sp" should not be a match.
2. There should be a way to turn off emoticon->emoji rendering entirely in IRC. One could imagine that this is annoying in e.g., #neovim , where ":s" is the beginning of a vim substitution command

Comment 1

[michael]

Also, if it is important, I have [Preferences -> Plain Text Messages -> Display emoticons as graphics] set to OFF.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Thanks for filing, this seems to be a duplicate of bug 954572.

Also, if it is important, I have [Preferences -> Plain Text Messages -> Display emoticons as graphics] set to OFF.

And this is bug 1151253.