Yeah, we’re *so* going to start seeing bugs that are done entirely in emoji. I 
don’t look forward to decoding them, although I’m sure they’ll be incredibly 
clever and fun. :)


> On Jan 17, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Emma Humphries <e...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> As the BMO team announced earlier, we're going to be allowing emoji in user 
> inputs in Bugzilla.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253535 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253535>
> 
> We have not committed to a date to release this feature as it requires a 
> production database change which we haven't been able schedule yet. 
> 
> Meanwhile, this change means that as an Bugzilla API consumer, you will need 
> to be ready to accept emoji in your systems.
> 
> In particular, if your client application uses MySQL, you'll need to update 
> your databases and tables to use utf8mb4 instead of utf8 encoding, otherwise 
> if you try writing strings containing emoji, they would be truncated at the 
> first emoji which would be a πŸ’© situation. Adjust that caveat as needed for 
> other data stores such as Postgres.
> 
> If your application will need time to be able to support emoji, please 
> contact the bmo team. Otherwise we'll assume you're 😎 with this change and 
> not 😱.
> 
> Also, once we turn this feature on, some of our users will think themselves 
> clever and create bugs with πŸ’©πŸ’©πŸ’© as the title. If the bug contains little else 
> than that, it's probably a πŸ—‘πŸ”₯ and can be closed as INVALID.
> 
> -- Emma (πŸžπŸ‘©)
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