Emoji not rendering

[ineffyble]

Following the guides at https://buildkite.com/docs/builds/managing-log-output , I've added the following line to our build shell script:

echo -e "\:package: Deploying to dev environment"

However, it is showing verbatim, and not showing any emoji. Removing the backslash escape has no effect.

[toolmantim]

Oh darn, we might have broken our docs there. Sorry about that!

Can you try this instead: echo ":package: Deploying to dev environment"

[ineffyble]

No luck I'm afraid.

[toolmantim]

Oh wait, it needs to be a group. It's missing the ---

echo "--- :package: Deploying to dev environment"

[ineffyble]

Interesting - it's working in group headings, but not in the logs underneath them.

[toolmantim]

That's by design I'm afraid!

[ineffyble]

Alas

[toolmantim]

Sorry! But I'm going to reopen this just so @harrietgrace can check our docs are still telling the truth with the emoji syntax. Those backslashes don't look quite right.

[ticky]

I recall we were having some issues with

• escaping emoji
  • in YAML snippets
  • in Markdown processed by the Ruby app

remove one of those and it worked okay. I suspect the situation will change when the new tech hits, but that’s worth double-checking, too!

[harrietgrace]

Yeah, we ended up sorting out that particular issue @ticky 🎉 But these docs do need to be updated, there are some accidental slashes in there!