Support displaying shortcodes instead of Emojis in messages #317

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opened 2025-10-14 15:45:52 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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2025-10-14 15:45:52 -06:00

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Originally created by @bbliem on 3/22/2024

The font in my terminal doesn't support most emoji characters and shows ugly placeholders instead. For reactions, there is the setting reaction_shortcode_display that allows me to see human-readable shortcodes instead of the emojis. However, for emojis in messages there is no such feature.

I added a new setting message_shortcode_display that controls whether shortcodes are displayed instead of emojis in messages.

Replacing emojis with shortcodes happens in TextPrinter (or, for plain text, in Message::show_msg()).

I hope the changes are alright. I'd be happy to improve the code further and I'd be grateful for some feedback as I'm not very experienced in Rust yet.

*Originally created by @bbliem on 3/22/2024* The font in my terminal doesn't support most emoji characters and shows ugly placeholders instead. For reactions, there is the setting `reaction_shortcode_display` that allows me to see human-readable shortcodes instead of the emojis. However, for emojis in messages there is no such feature. I added a new setting `message_shortcode_display` that controls whether shortcodes are displayed instead of emojis in messages. Replacing emojis with shortcodes happens in `TextPrinter` (or, for plain text, in `Message::show_msg()`). I hope the changes are alright. I'd be happy to improve the code further and I'd be grateful for some feedback as I'm not very experienced in Rust yet.