[$500] Do not allow emojis to be formatted (ie italics)

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to android app
2. Go to any chat
3. Try to make emoji in italic form:-Type in : insertemoji For example:⁦:100:, ⁦:purple_heart: , ⁦:partying_face: ,
4. Notice that the top right part of the emoji cuts off. Few Example: the 💯, 💜, 🥳 emoji has its top right section cut , (It happens on android only latest)

Expected Result:

Users should not be able to format emojis, lets keep them with normal style (no bold, italics, strikethrough etc)

Actual Result:

Users can make emoji italic which leads to the emojis to cut off a few parts of the emoji (for some emojis)

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• MacOS Desktop
• MacOS Chrome Web

Version Number: 1.2.62-1
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos:

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @priya-zha
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1675094271396099

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[anmurali]

Confirmed that this happens on Android native app.

Confirmed it does not happen on Mac/Chrome. But related, when I try the same reproduction steps on iOS native, iOS Chrome and Mac Safari - I cannot italicize emojis at all. Is that expected?

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Current assignee @anmurali is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @aimane-chnaif (External)

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @flodnv (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.