Rocket.chat: Links containing ":" (e.g. LinkedIn links) will render emojis

[peterk]

Description:

Pasting links containing the colon character will render an emoji instead of the proper link text. This is problematic for all LinkedIn post links that contains segments with urn:li::

Steps to reproduce:

1. Paste a LinkedIn post link in any chat in Rocket.chat.
2. Link segments is converted to emoji.

Expected behavior:

No emojis replaced inside links.

Actual behavior:

Server Setup Information:

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 0.68.5
• Deployment Method: Docker
• Number of Running Instances: 1

Additional context

Possibly related to #6770

[fcrespo82]

Hi! In the light of #Hacktoberfest I would like to help fix this bug.
Is this already being worked on, or can I help?

[tassoevan]

@fcrespo82 There are some open PRs aiming to fix the entire message rendering system and other ones related to a particular rendering issue, but I think there is not a single one addressing this problem yet.

[c-to-the-l]

A temporary workaround for this bug is to replace any :s in links with :, which will stop the emoji from being inserted into the link.

Of course, this means hand-editing any messages that have this issue.

[knrt10]

On it, will try to fix this.

[ggazzo]

closed by #15516