[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #31019: Critical Bug: Special Emoji character destroys draft

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#31019: Critical Bug: Special Emoji character destroys draft
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 Reporter:  Justin.Reinhart  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor           |    Version:  4.1
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                   |
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 In WordPress 4.1, editing a draft via Chrome browser in Windows 7, it is
 possible to lose a draft if the contents of the Visual editor contain a
 specific type of special character. Basically, the character is an iPhone
 Emoji.

 I had sent an email to a company for support from my iPhone and I used an
 Emoji that does not show up when it reaches the PC. When you view the sent
 email from the PC, in Gmail, the Emoji shows up as a square. (😭) I copy
 and pasted the entire email into WordPress because it was to me the basis
 for a blog post I was authoring.

 However, I lost 80% of my work due to a bug. If this character is included
 in a WordPress Draft, when the user clicks [Save Draft] they will find
 that absolutely everything after the special character will be DISCARDED.
 There is no way to undo the damage. This bug can reproduced over and over.

 I consider this critical because making sure that an author's work is not
 destroyed in any way should be priority #1.

 Ref: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-bug-special-emoji-
 character-destroys-draft

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