[$250] Emoji - highlighting Emoji is not retangular

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.14-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Access New Expensify app
2. Sign into a valid account
3. Sent any emoji in the composer and Highlight it with the cursor

Expected Result:

User expects a constant rectangular/square blue highlight

Actual Result:

The Highlight is "Broken", showing as "blocks"

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @eVoloshchak

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @deetergp (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[github-actions]

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[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp

[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

If you are the assigned CME please investigate whether the linked PR caused a regression and leave a comment with the results.

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If this regression could have been avoided please consider also proposing a recommendation to the PR checklist so that we can avoid it in the future.

[VickyStash]

This issue was known before the merging of the related PR, please see the discussion: #40692 (comment)

[roryabraham]

This is NAB, demoting it

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~014e9d5775000772ed

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @eVoloshchak (External)

[melvin-bot]

@deetergp, @eVoloshchak Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

[eVoloshchak]

Not overdue, awaiting proposals

[VickyStash]

This issue isn't relevant, since the PR that caused this issue was reverted

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[deetergp]

I just verified that this is no longer happening on main. Closing this.