Desription – special characters not allowed

Hey Andi,

I’ll look into this. Just to confirm, you’re talking about the (R) symbols, right?

– Arnaud

Hello Arnaud,
thank you for your reply.

no, im talking about the green checkmark symbols from the first link.
( here is a copy-paste of the symbol – i hope its visible: ? )

The R symbols are only in the title and they seem unaffected when i save the page.

best regards & thank you!
andi

Oh sorry, I missed that! ??

We have a ticket open for an issue for emojis. We’re probably going to fix this in the next update so please sit tight!

– Arnaud

Hey @andiszek,

I’m actually having a hard time reproducing this issue. Would you mind reaching out to us here so we can follow up on this – https://aioseo.com/contact/. You can click the “Complete a Form” button and ask for me specifically.

– Arnaud

Hello Arnaud,
sorry for the late reply, something urgent came up.

i have updated AIOSEO on an other site as well, and the special characters stay there after i save the pages.

i think it could be a theme-related issue – both themes are custom coded, so i will have to check the functions.php files to see if there are some filters to strip emojis.

i will get back to you – thanks again for your patience!

Hello Arnaud,
ok, i have found the problem – it was an old function to remove the emojis in the functions.php file. i have added an other function and everything works well now – the checkmark emojis are not removed any more from the AIOSEO Description field!

Sorry again for bothering you and i appreciate your patience and help!

best regards & thank you,
andi

No problem, I appreciate you getting back to me!

Hi this is not resolved. Maybe the OP guy above thinks it is resolved but honestly your plugin after the latest update will after a day or so strip out emojis from META TITLE. They will also dissapear from Google SERP of course which is bad for CTR and thus hurting SEO.

Hello Silky,
i have marked it as resolved, as i found out the culprit – see my message above.

you might have an Emoji removal function in your functions.php or are removing emojis in an other way (maybe a security plugin, or cache/speed plugin?)

in any case, i have added the following code to my functions.php file and the emojis are not removed any more from the Description ( i dont know about the title though, havent tested it)

// Remove Emojis
function remove_emoji()
{
	remove_action('wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7);
	remove_action('admin_print_scripts', 'print_emoji_detection_script');
	remove_action('admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles');
	remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles');
	remove_filter('the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji');
	remove_filter('comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji');
	remove_filter('wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email');
	add_filter('tiny_mce_plugins', 'remove_tinymce_emoji');
}
add_action('init', 'remove_emoji');
function remove_tinymce_emoji($plugins)
{
	if (!is_array($plugins))
	{
		return array();
	}
	return array_diff($plugins, array(
		'wpemoji'
	));
}

try adding it to your functions.php, maybe it fixes your problem?

regards,
andi