Emoji From Other Servers in Message Text Often Fail to Render

[slatinsky]

Emoji From Other Servers in Message Text Often Fail to Render

[slatinsky]

If markdown processing it turned on (default) in DiscordChatExporter, emoji ids are stripped from the export.

My frontend is finds all emojis used in reactions, and uses them to replace emojis in message content. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not (if the emoji was only used in message content and never in any reaction).

If you turn off markdown processing in DiscordChatExporter --markdown false and enable internet access in DiscordChatExporter-frontend, emojis from other servers will render correctly.

I can't fix this, sorry. It is missing from the export made by DiscordChatExporter.

[Shadowmech88]

What are the ramifications of not using markdown processing? The emoji not rendering are annoying, but would the export as a whole look much worse without markdown?

[slatinsky]

If exported without markdown processing, the export contains more raw information, like emojiIds, channelIds,...

[Shadowmech88]

I tried it out and that does work, although unfortunately I think the lack of readable user mentions and channel links is more crippling to the backup than broken emoji. I wonder how difficult it would be to make a tool to take two backups, one with markdown processing and one without, and create a new one where all markdown is processed except for external emoji.

Also I noticed that without markdown processing, all in-message emoji display very large. I'm not sure if that's something you have control over with the frontend, though.

[slatinsky]

User mentions should be readable and highlighted. If they are not, it is a bug.

But it is not possible to convert roles to their names, because that information is not exported by the exporter.

Converting channel links to their names is possible, but not yet done (for exports exported using --markdown false).

If message only contains emoji and nothing else, emoji renders larger in discord too. That is intended behavior (issue #18)

[Shadowmech88]

User mentions should be readable and highlighted

Without markdown processing on the export, they're not.
I pulled the same post up side by side and without markdown processing, the user mention is rendered in the style of @1234567890 (presumably the user's ID number.)
Unless that's something which was fixed in newer DCEF versions, since I'm using v1.13.2.

If message only contains emoji and nothing else, emoji renders larger in discord too

I know that. I'm actually the author of the issue you linked.
I'm talking about emoji rendering differently on exports for which markdown processing is turned off. Not only are they large even when the message also contains text, but they're much larger than even the large versions that Discord uses for emoji-only messages.

[slatinsky]

--markdown false didn't exist when v1.13.2 was released. I won't backport fixes and new features to old versions, sorry.