gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/changelogs/unreleased/allow-emoji-in-references.yml

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title: Allow references to labels and milestones to contain emoji
merge_request: 29284
author:
type: changed
Allow emoji in label and milestone references If we put the emoji filter before the reference filters, each emoji will have a wrapper element that prevents the reference filter from detecting the presence of the emoji. As the emoji filter now runs after the reference filters, references must contain a literal emoji, not the GitLab Flavored Markdown versions (:100`, for example). A weird side-effect is that if you have a label with the 100 emoji, and a label named :100:, then trying to reference the latter will work (link to the correct label), but will render with the 100 emoji. I'm comfortable with that edge case, I think. 2019-06-06 16:49:08 +00:00			`---`
			`title: Allow references to labels and milestones to contain emoji`
			`merge_request: 29284`
			`author:`
			`type: changed`