Emoji not rendered

[sebastien-savalle]

We recently noticed a strange behavior with emoji included in the report. They are no longer rendered, except the duration

One example:

Could you have a look ? Thanks a lot, Sebastien

[EnricoMi]

Is that on an enterprise github (non-public)? Do checks not render or job summaries or pull request comments?

[sebastien-savalle]

You're right, we run an enterprise github but it worked before. The issue is present everywhere: in checks, job summaries and pr comments

[EnricoMi]

I presume that is an enterprise github setup issue because the markdown is rendered by Github UI. I presume a config change has happened.

[sebastien-savalle]

Yes probably and this is really strange because the duration 🕐 emoticon is still rendered. But this is the only one. For others, like ✅ , they are properly working everywhere except when the markdown is generated by your action.

Example with another action (dorny/test-reporter) in the same repository:

[EnricoMi]

I presume ✅ is a unicode character in that markdown and not a :white_check_mark: (:white_check_mark:)?

Please try the following: copy the following lines into a message in your enterprise github:

✅ is a unicode character
:white_check_mark: needs to be rendered

[EnricoMi]

Looks like the dorny report uses the unicode character: https://github.com/dorny/test-reporter/blob/1a288b62f8b75c0f433cbfdbc2e4800fbae50bd7/src/utils/markdown-utils.ts#L8-L12

[EnricoMi]

I could not find any announcement by Github that those named emoji might be deprecated, only this bug report that got resolved: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/77606

[EnricoMi]

Anyway, might be safer to use unicode emojis rather than named emojis.

[EnricoMi]

Interesting is that the named stopwatch emoji :stopwatch: is working for you...

[sebastien-savalle]

I presume ✅ is a unicode character in that markdown and not a ✅ (:white_check_mark:)?

Please try the following: copy the following lines into a message in your enterprise github:

✅ is a unicode character
:white_check_mark: needs to be rendered

And we use it (:white_check_mark:) regularly in pull request without issues

[sebastien-savalle]

You're right, the other action seems to use unicode icons.

https://github.com/dorny/test-reporter/blob/1a288b62f8b75c0f433cbfdbc2e4800fbae50bd7/src/utils/markdown-utils.ts#L9

[EnricoMi]

Can you edit a pull request comment of this action and copy-paste the markdown here?

[sebastien-savalle]

Sure

publish-unit-test-result-action:

## Backend Tests Result
   15 files    864 suites   31m 13s :stopwatch:
3 734 tests 3 730 :white_check_mark: 4 :zzz: 0 :x:
3 768 runs  3 764 :white_check_mark: 4 :zzz: 0 :x:

Results for commit 5a770bff.

[test-results]:data:application/gzip;base64,H4sIANOBB2cC/02PQQ6DIBBFr2JYdzEgMtrLNIiQkKo0CCvTu3dEG1y+9ycvsDPnZ7uxZ8O7R8O27FOhXknCKUedfFiPuceWDK3p2Fts5R9fWzbmdFDd23/I1SOn/UyiXtgYQ7xMzOtZVf1FNVpecqraLHxLFr4XTVgWnwhYpxFhdA4QpBhRm0kAiEEqBZo+Zbg1E8eBs+8PC0H2RA0BAAA=

:recycle: This comment has been updated with latest results.

Rendered as:

[EnricoMi]

Can you edit the pull request comment once more and add

✅ is a unicode character
:white_check_mark: needs to be rendered

from above to it and see if that renders as before?

[EnricoMi]

Can you try running the action from this branch to test a fix?

uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/composite@unicode-emojis

That branch uses unicode emojis rather than markdown.

[sebastien-savalle]

This is clearly better :)

I used uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@unicode-emojis not uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action/composite@unicode-emojis

[EnricoMi]

With uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@unicode-emojis you effectively run the release version, not the changes of the unicode-emojis branch. If you edit the comment, you should see it contains markdown emojis. Interesting that this works again.

[sebastien-savalle]

I can confirm this is markdown, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Really weird.

[EnricoMi]

That is why I would like you to test this branch to see if this works around this bug. In the end Github has to fix it but I'd prefer the unicode emojis if they make things more robust.

[sebastien-savalle]

Yes I understood but I can't use the composite action which is not approved by my github enterprise.

[EnricoMi]

Alright, I think this is safe to be released.

[EnricoMi]

Fix has been released.