Merge pull request #3718 from tgxworld/allow_emojis_to_be_copy_and_pasted

FIX: Allow user to quote Emojis.

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/emoji/emoji.js.erb

@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ function imageFor(code) {
   code = code.toLowerCase();
   var url = urlFor(code);
   if (url) {
-    return ['img', { href: url, title: ':' + code + ':', 'class': 'emoji', alt: code }];
+    var code = ':' + code + ':';
+    return ['img', { href: url, title: code, 'class': 'emoji', alt: code }];
   }
 }
 

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/utilities.js

@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ Discourse.Utilities = {
     // Strip out any .click elements from the HTML before converting it to text
     var div = document.createElement('div');
     div.innerHTML = html;
-    $('.clicks', $(div)).remove();
+    var $div = $(div);
+    // Find all emojis and replace with its title attribute.
+    $div.find('img.emoji').replaceWith(function() { return this.title });
+    $('.clicks', $div).remove();
     var text = div.textContent || div.innerText || "";
 
     return String(text).trim();