"regexp is fair" turned into "rege😝air"

[freaktechnik]

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable "Automatically replace plain text Emoji" preference
2. Select the composition text box
3. Type "regexp is fair"

Outcome

What did you expect?

"regexp is fair" or at least "rege😝 is fair" but arguably it shouldn't replace when there are letters before the matching "plaintext emoji".

What happened instead?

"rege😝air"

Operating system

elementary OS

Browser information

Firefox Nightly 95.0a1

URL for webapp

https://one.humanoids.be/apps/riotchat/riot/

Homeserver

humanoids.be

Will you send logs?

No

[turt2live]

From the cases linked to this issue, a simple check like the one suggested here would be good: if there are characters before the presumed emoji, don't convert it.

[e-maya]

Six (and a half) months and nothing...

Clearly a bug that is being neglected for ethnocentric reasons. No doubt it would already be fixed if it affected common suffixes in the most used languages among Matrix/Element owners and users.

[turt2live]

it also affects the element developers like myself, however on the larger scale of important bugs to fix it's just not at the same level as app reliability and performance, sorry :(

the issue is flagged as Help Wanted to attract contributions, however.

[t3chguy]

No doubt it would already be fixed if it affected common suffixes in the most used languages among Matrix/Element owners and users.

Our triage is based on occurrence. If it only affects few users then yes it'll get triaged lower. But great news, the project is open source, you or anyone can fix this issue regardless of its triage.