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# Emojis
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GitLab supports native Unicode emojis and falls back to image-based emojis selectively
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when your platform does not support it.
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## How to update Emojis
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1. Update the `gemojione` gem
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1. Update `fixtures/emojis/index.json` from [Gemojione ](https://github.com/bonusly/gemojione/blob/master/config/index.json ).
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In the future, we could grab the file directly from the gem.
We should probably make a PR on the Gemojione project to get access to
all emojis after being parsed or just a raw path to the `json` file itself.
1. Ensure [`emoji-unicode-version` ](https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-unicode-version )
is up to date with the latest version.
1. Run `bundle exec rake gemojione:aliases`
1. Run `bundle exec rake gemojione:digests`
1. Run `bundle exec rake gemojione:sprite`
1. Ensure new sprite sheets generated for 1x and 2x
- `app/assets/images/emoji.png`
- `app/assets/images/emoji@2x.png`
1. Ensure you see new individual images copied into `app/assets/images/emoji/`
1. Ensure you can see the new emojis and their aliases in the GFM Autocomplete
1. Ensure you can see the new emojis and their aliases in the award emoji menu
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1. You might need to add new emoji Unicode support checks and rules for platforms
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that do not support a certain emoji and we need to fallback to an image.
See `app/assets/javascripts/emoji/support/is_emoji_unicode_supported.js`
and `app/assets/javascripts/emoji/support/unicode_support_map.js`
