In the official Discord client, if you were to type something like :sob:, it would be converted to Discord's custom emoji and sent as the corresponding Unicode emoji as the text content of the message in the API. Discord's client can represent standard Unicode emojis in two ways: via the Unicode character for the emoji, or via a standard emoji link (i.e. :sob:).
Aerochat handles decoding Unicode emojis to its custom emoji images already, but it does not support decoding Discord's emoji links (i.e. :sob:), so if you were to try to send a :sob: emoji from Aerochat, it would render in the Aerochat client as :sob: at all times, whereas you can send and receive the proper emoji representation from the official client.
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In the official Discord client, if you were to type something like
:sob:, it would be converted to Discord's custom emoji and sent as the corresponding Unicode emoji as the text content of the message in the API. Discord's client can represent standard Unicode emojis in two ways: via the Unicode character for the emoji, or via a standard emoji link (i.e.:sob:).Aerochat handles decoding Unicode emojis to its custom emoji images already, but it does not support decoding Discord's emoji links (i.e.
:sob:), so if you were to try to send a :sob: emoji from Aerochat, it would render in the Aerochat client as:sob:at all times, whereas you can send and receive the proper emoji representation from the official client.