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Copying and pasting emoji in Slack
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slack-emoji-conversion.md

Copy the following snippet:

<meta name="twitter:label1" value="Reading time">
<meta name="twitter:data1" value="3 mins 🕑">
<meta name="twitter:label2" value="Recommends">
<meta name="twitter:data2" value="171 💚">

Paste it into Slack and hit send. (You can use @slackbot as a sort of sandbox if you don’t want to spam your team.)

You should see this:

<meta name="twitter:label1" value="Reading time">
<meta name="twitter:data1" value="3 mins 🕑">
<meta name="twitter:label2" value="Recommends">
<meta name="twitter:data2" value="171 💚">

Now try the same thing with the following snippet (including the backticks):

```
<meta name="twitter:label1" value="Reading time">
<meta name="twitter:data1" value="3 mins 🕑">
<meta name="twitter:label2" value="Recommends">
<meta name="twitter:data2" value="171 💚">
```

Slack will convert the emoji characters to emoji codes like so:

<meta name="twitter:label1" value="Reading time">
<meta name="twitter:data1" value="3 mins :clock2:">
<meta name="twitter:label2" value="Recommends">
<meta name="twitter:data2" value="171 :green_heart:">
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I’m using the Slack desktop app on Mac:
Slack v1.1.7 (3010)
OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

I shamelessly stole the example code from the <head> of this Medium article:
https://medium.com/performance-snapshot/performance-snapshot-ryanair-s-2015-redesign-dbd508c78a33

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This appears to be fixed in recent Slack versions.

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