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Render gitlab emojis

Olena Horal-Koretska requested to merge Render_gitlab_emojis into master

It adds support of GL emojis into this project. It is a bit simplified implementation from GitLab project (as we do not have ruby gem that would regenerate sprites and emojis). But all code is copied from there.

The approach is basically next:

  • Custom gl-emoji element is created
  • if its content unicode character is supported, it is rendered by browser without our code intervention
  • if it is not supported, render png image fallback (e.g. 🏳️‍🌈) (css sprite fallback is not supported, cause it depends on gon properties and BE code)

Script for copying assets for rendering emojis from GitLab project to Status Page project is implemented in !39 (merged)

Edited by Olena Horal-Koretska

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