2024-03-24 UTC
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[tantek] auto-emoji << emoji shortcodes are their own [[microsyntax]] (see https://emojipedia.org/shortcodes) and are not actually part of [[Markdown]] (no mention of emoji in https://spec.commonmark.org/). They happen to be supported in many text-entry boxes, some of which also support Markdown (e.g. [[GitHub]]), and thus are mistakenly thought of as part of Markdown, or even part of GitHub Flavored Markdown, despite that spec also having no mention