How do you inhibit emoji expansion?

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I was trying to write “sex : gender :: pig : pork” without the spaces, but this got emojified to

sex:gender::pig:pork

Escaping with backslashes doesn’t seem to give me what I want, either:

sex:gender::pig:pork

Is this possible?

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one clumsy way:
sex:gender::­pig:pork
sex:gender::­pig:pork

there’s also

sex꞉gender꞉꞉pig꞉pork
sex꞉gender꞉꞉pig꞉pork
(Unicode ‘MODIFIER LETTER COLON’ U+A789)

or

sex:gender::pig:pork
sex:gender\::`pig:pork`

Not sure if there’s a saner way.

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Ick, I guess &­shy; is the best of those options.

Of course, now I just had to type &­shy; as &&­shy;shy;

  • ­
  • &­shy;
  • &&­shy;shy;
  • &&&­shy;shy;shy;
  • &&&&­shy;shy;shy;shy;

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Nothing like co-worker s IMing you MAC addresses with :grinning: in the middle

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Another common problem on some boards:

  1. first thing
  2. second
  3. third
  4. fourth
  5. fifth
  6. sixth
  7. seventh
    :sunglasses: eighth
  8. ninth
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There’s also the suboptimal:
sex:gender::pig:pork
sex:gender::<m>pig:pork

Also you can use the colon HTML entity:
sex:gender::pig:pork
sex:gender:&#58;pig:pork

Pretty much any HTML chunk (even invalid) that doesn’t render will stop the parser.

On a totally unrelated note, whoah!
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<kbd>button</kbd>

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“Backticks” work if you don’t mind the fixed-width font:

`sex:gender::pig:pork` → sex:gender::pig:pork

And as I edit this post I see also that a <dd> block magically disables emoji:

<dd> sex:gender::pig:pork </dd>

sex:gender::pig:pork

So if you wanted something indented anyway, that would be convenient.

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Now I’m wondering just how escapes are intended to be used on discourse. Because if I type \<foo\> it seems to get discarded completely:

<foo>

That must mean escapes are processed before html? Unexpected.

So far, the only thing I’m pretty sure \ escapes correctly is \ itself.

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Curiouser and curiouser! I think I would have used fixed width in that instance if I had intuited what the </> icon meant.

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The parser’s open source if you want to read through some semi-complex JS libs. I dredged through it some in the past when I was curious about some stuff.

I tend to just use backticks or &shy; to break the parser if I don’t want the grey background.

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I see the <dl> tag has the same effect without indenting:

<dl> sex:gender::pig:pork </dl>

sex:gender::pig:pork

<dd> sex:gender::pig:pork </dd>

sex:gender::pig:pork

There may also be something relevant among the many frightening experiments in formatting at the so-called BBS Style Manual.

link fixed

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I’m starting to think some of this might just be unexpected interplay between various plugins.

spoiled kbd

kbd’ed spoiler

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Thank you @nemomen and @smulder! A gift:

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