Disabling emojis
Asked by Gauthier ?stervall:

I use Confluence professionally, where emojis are nearly never welcome.

Typing "(50 %)" results in a smiley face, which is ridiculous.

How do I change this default behavior? I still want to be able to auto-complete @-mentions and the like. (I've seen [this](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-you-disable-emoticons-Site-or-space-wide-in-Confluence/qaq-p/1170690).)


Answers:
author: Joel
body: I'm afraid I don't have an answer, but I want to echo the opening comment:  

***I use Confluence ++professionally++, where emojis are nearly never welcome.***

This is a beautiful and succinct expression of the issue.

Does anyone use this software for reasons other than *professionally*?

If someone wants to pepper their documentation with emojis, I don't care...but please make the capability OPT-IN, not default behavior. Good grief.

comments: author: Gauthier ?stervall
body: Did you feel the sarcasm? ;) :O :joy:


author: Team Infrastructure
body: You will throw away 80% of the new confluence development ...  

I also second

***I use Confluence ++professionally++, where emojis are nearly never welcome.***


author: Stephen McCafferty
body: Agree with the above comments. I want to turn off emojis complete. In my case, typing "(off)" is giving me a lightbulb emoji when I just want to clarify what happens when a setting is off. I **do** want to use all the other shortcuts that add actual value.

Please allow us to completely disable emojis auto-replace. I'd much rather have to manually add the emoji myself for the one time a year that it's useful than have to fight the system when typing prose - which is surely what the system is supposed to be designed for. This isn't Twitter social media, and having perfectly standard texts for a knowledge base be replaced by *fun graphical gimmicks* isn't useful.


author: Jeff Wilson
body: This is way annoying - If you are using Confluence as your documentation Wiki. the last thing you need is emojis. Who thougt of this? I certainly don't pay the money I pay for licenses for happy faces. In my case I was documenting drive letters and every time I typed D:, I got ![2024-03-13_16-57-08.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/311852iBA16739C4BBF4920/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2024-03-13_16-57-08.jpg")

Any way, as David Allen notes, pressing CTRL-Z immediately after reverts the emoji back to text. I also found that typing my drive letter as d: and the replacing d with D: had the same effect.

This "Feature" is really a pain in the ya yas if you are trying to perform the all too mundane task of using Confluence for documentation, because documentation, although necessary is really boring. It doesn't help that Confluence is making it annoying too.


author: Doug.Yu
body: I agree with Gauthier, and I found a workaround.

For instance, typing (X) creates an emoji,

but if I type (X ), no emoji is created. Then i go back and remove the space before the closing parens, and I get (X)

comments: author: Pekko Vehvil?inen
body: Thanks, worked for me!


author: Karri Adkins
body: These things are so unprofessional and look childish in the professional use. I am embarassed when spaces are created and these things display.


author: younjae_ban
body: I also don't need emojis at all.!!

When automatically updating a page using the Confluence API, unwanted emojis keep getting inserted because of the markup language.

**I really hate it!** It's so annoying.


author: Matt Reiner [K15t]
body: Hi [@Gauthier ?stervall](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1065656)

It looks like you can disable this on your user account by turning of keyboard shortcuts in Confluence:

[https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/remove-automatic-smiley-display-when-typing-quot-quot-line-break/qaq-p/1338838?utm_source=atlcomm\&utm_medium=email\&utm_campaign=digest_notification\&utm_content=topic](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/remove-automatic-smiley-display-when-typing-quot-quot-line-break/qaq-p/1338838?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digest_notification&utm_content=topic)

comments: author: Gauthier ?stervall
body: Hi! As mentioned, I don' t want to disable other auto-complete functions, such as @ mentions and the like.


author: Wade Tracy _Boise_ ID_
body: Sadly, based on this request:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-23638>

I'm guessing that there isn't a way short of somebody creating a plugin.

Wade

comments: author: David Allen
body: It's still very annoying and I agree it should be possible to disable while leaving other shortcuts in-place. Typing control-Z immediately after it displays the emoji turns the text back into what you wanted.


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