Element-web: Use :smile: instead of :smiley: for :D auto-replacement

[MightyCreak]

Description

When auto-replacement of emojis is enabled, :D becomes :smiley: (:smiley:) while I think it is more appropriate to use :smile: (:smile:). In both Riot, Github and Slack, :smiley: looks more like a "oh, surprise" than a "it's funny".

I always had this feeling that it was the wrong smiley that was used, but thought that it was just the emoji library that was like that, but I discovered that Slack was also using :smile: for :D. Which is yet another argument.

And also, it's more logical since :) is replaced by :slight_smile:, with no y in the end.

Steps to reproduce

• Write :D and Space

What happened: it is replaced by :smiley:
Expected: should probably be replaced by :smile: instead.

Version information

• Platform: both web and desktop

For the web app:

• Browser: Firefox 64
• OS: Linux (Fedora)
• URL: riot.im/app

For the desktop app:

• OS: Linux (Fedora)
• Version: 0.17.6

[Matrixcoffee]

Weird. I've always associated :D with 😁

😄 is definitely more correct than 😃 though.

[MightyCreak]

:grin: :grin: make me feel more like the auto-replacement for ^^.

[MightyCreak]

Ok so, I've read the code a little and apparently the auto-replacement list is not done by Riot devs, but it's coming from the emojione third party module: https://github.com/emojione/emojione/blob/master/lib/js/emojione.js#L101 (line 101).

@ara4n Is that it?

[MightyCreak]

I've entered an issue in emojione: https://github.com/emojione/emojione/issues/635

We'll see how it goes...

[tulir]

FYI: Riot uses an outdated emojione and can't update as emojione 3+ has a bad license. Hopefully Riot will switch to Noto Color Emoji or Twemoji soon (#7354)

[lampholder]

auto-replacement list is not done by Riot devs, but it's coming from the emojione third party module

I'm pretty certain that's the case

FYI: Riot uses an outdated emojione and can't update as emojione 3+ has a bad license

This is sadly certainly the case.

Fwiw I don't think we should consider managing our own mapping of :textname: -> emoji - I'll be happiest if we adopt a standard emoji library and embrace its standard :textname: -> emoji mapping.

[MightyCreak]

Fwiw I don't think we should consider managing our own mapping of :textname: -> emoji - I'll be happiest if we adopt a standard emoji library and embrace its standard :textname: -> emoji mapping.

I agree 100% for the :textname: -> emoji mapping, but I think it's arguable for smileys (:), ;), :D, etc...) since the list is way shorter and, most importantly, not standardized as the emoji textnames are.

[aaronraimist]

:D is now 😁 which I think makes sense

[jryans]

Yes, I think we can consider this fixed by the switch to Emojibase for this data.