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Unable to use Many Emotes in rich Text Messages #202
Description
Account type
Live
Conversation details
Group, desktop & mobile
Steps to reproduce
Unable to use emotes such as (creditcard) or flags such as (flag:us) in a rich text message when using the sendMsg() function.
Basically many emotes aren't in SkypeUtils.static["items"], so it doesn't work when calling SkypeMsg.Emote() either as that method relies on SkypeUtils.static["items"].
Rich text seems to force Skype emotes in all formats EXCEPT UniCode to not embed.
Example: (flag:us) will not embed properly if rich=true, but will work if rich=false.
Result or traceback
Unable to use many emotes in rich text messages.
Sorry if there is already a known fix that I was unable to find. I looked and couldn't find anything.
Activity
Terrance commentedon Jun 8, 2022
It may well be that emoticons are managed in a different way now (which may include being "compiled" into their JavaScript instead of being retrieved from an endpoint). I suppose ideally you'd be able to still send an emoticon with just the short code -- what does the markup for an incoming message with such an emoticon look like?
eth commentedon Jun 9, 2022
In markup they're written the same as plain text (flag:us), (creditcard), etc...
If I do no formatting it shows (creditcard) like this:
<ss type="1f4b3_creditcard">(creditcard)</ss>and (flag:us) like this<ss type="flag_us">(flag:us)</ss>Terrance commentedon Jun 9, 2022
A cursory look at the network requests suggests Skype for Web now does a lookup for every individual emoticon(!):
e.g. https://static-asm.secure.skypeassets.com/pes/v1/emoticons/1f4b3_creditcard/views/meta.default:
{ "id": "1f4b3_creditcard", "type": "emoticon", "shortcuts": [ "(creditcard)", "(1f4b3_creditcard)" ], "visible": true, "useInSms": false, "media": { "default": { "firstFrame": 1, "framesCount": 1, "framesCountOptimized": 1, "fluentFramesCount": 1, "fps": 24 } }, "diverse": false, "utf": "💳", "description": "Credit card", "keywords": [ "credit card" ], "etag": "v8" }I can't see any obvious endpoint that lists the available emoticons though.
As a fallback to the static list we have currently, I could make it use this lookup to try and find additional emoticons as and when needed, though it's not ideal.
eth commentedon Jun 23, 2022
Whatever you think is best :_)