GitHub recently released a feature allowing you to add emoji to label names. This allows you to do bug 馃悰 instead of the boring bug.
GItHawk doesn鈥檛 yet recognize emoji in labels and just renders it as a string. It looks like this:

API and Enterprise support for these features is coming soon!
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@BasThomas I think this issue is just about replacing the emoji token with the proper emoji. I don鈥檛 think it has anything to do with the GitHub API. The new features for labeling were more fields. ie) Description. Maybe I鈥檓 mistaken?
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Ah, I don't know what their backwards-compatability is; they previously would choke on emoji, so I would assume they don't support emoji in the responses at this point either? That could potentially break old clients. We can check?
There's an API for this now: https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/labels/#get-a-single-label
+1 now that we've got emoji's in our bug label.. I'm going to look at this since I'm working on a few things related to labels already, but if anybody else knows how to fix, feel free!
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@BasThomas I think this issue is just about replacing the emoji token with the proper emoji. I don鈥檛 think it has anything to do with the GitHub API. The new features for labeling were more fields. ie) Description. Maybe I鈥檓 mistaken?
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