Gajim - 2025-02-23

y does gajim add \uFE0F after every emoji?

https://downloadable.pain.agency/file_share/2N7U7KjfC-gHalj0rY_ksmB-/6d087055-de66-4c96-88fa-dcc730e1b119.png

whered the button go 🤔

it works if i click the empty space there, but theres no button displaying

hau: it's called a emoji variant selector, what's the problem with it?

lovetox, it was causing an issue with reactions for my bot, cause it wouldn't recognize the emoji as valid when the message came from gajim. ``` reaction.set_value(reaction_txt, all_chars=all_chars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/slixmpp/plugins/xep_0444/stanza.py", line 55, in set_value raise ValueError("%s is not a valid emoji" % value) ValueError: 🍫️ is not a valid emoji ``` I fixed it now by just filtering the character out, but just wondering if there's any purpose to it since other clients don't do it.

depends there are emojis where it is valid, if you use gtk3 they added the variant to all emojis which is technically not valid for all emojis

but you are talking about reactions or?

i thought we filtered out all variant selectors

we remove all variant selectors

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/blob/master/gajim/common/modules/reactions.py#L176

and im sure this is also in the stable release

so i would doubt that you received this from a current Gajim release

either way, you need to be prepared to receive them, they are only invalid for some emojis not for all, this is defined in the emoji standard

no not from reactions, from messages (where the bot gets the emoji to send as reaction from)

> depends there are emojis where it is valid, if you use gtk3 they added the variant to all emojis which is technically not valid for all emojis do u have any examples of emojis where it is valid? ↺

but that makes not much sense, i can send in a message what i want, not just valid emojis :D

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Variation_Selector_Notes

and here examples

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_vs_Text_Display

> but that makes not much sense, i can send in a message what i want, not just valid emojis :D well sure, and when an invalid emoji is sent it won't do anything, it's just weird that gajim sends invalid emojis when picked ↺

Gajim still crashes if the funny unicode string is present in, for example, MUC topic

voker57: in nightly?

in Debian Experimental, at least

No idea what version they ship

1.9.5+git20250208.1b5501f8-1

This fix is included since Jan 9th https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/commit/1cece0fc0ee1e5eaaa7ba936a72046d89d0967ce