Emojis

GitLab supports native Emojis through the tanuki_emoji gem.

NOTE: tanuki_emoji gem has replaced gemojione. See more information here.

How to update Emojis

1. Update the tanuki_emoji gem.
2. Update fixtures/emojis/index.json from Gemojione. 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.
3. Ensure emoji-unicode-version is up to date with the latest version.
4. Use the tanuki_emoji gem's Rake tasks to update aliases, digests, and sprites:
   1. Run bundle exec rake tanuki_emoji:aliases
   2. Run bundle exec rake tanuki_emoji:digests
   3. Run bundle exec rake tanuki_emoji:sprite
5. Ensure new sprite sheets generated for 1x and 2x
   • app/assets/images/emoji.png
   • app/assets/images/emoji@2x.png
6. Update fixtures/emojis/intents.json with any new emoji that we would like to highlight as having positive or negative intent.
   • Positive intent should be set to 0.5.
   • Neutral intent can be set to 1. This is applied to all emoji automatically so there is no need to set this explicitly.
   • Negative intent should be set to 1.5.
7. Ensure you see new individual images copied into app/assets/images/emoji/
8. Ensure you can see the new emojis and their aliases in the GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM) Autocomplete
9. Ensure you can see the new emojis and their aliases in the emoji reactions menu
10. You might need to add new emoji Unicode support checks and rules for platforms 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