Prevent emojis in plugin titles from appearing before text

[Infinite-Null]

Trac ticket: #63120

What

When a plugin title contains an emoji (e.g., myplugin❤️wordpress), the emoji incorrectly appears before the text on the WordPress plugins admin page, showing as ❤️mypluginwordpress.

Screenshot:

Before Patch:

wp-admin/plugins.php:

After Patch:

wp-admin/plugins.php:

Plugin Update Page:

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[ant1sg]

Hi, I did try this PR in playground and it worked, but I tried with a classic playgournd (not including the PR) it also worked. Are you sure this does not come from something else in your install?

[Infinite-Null]

Hi @ant1sg, Thank you for testing the PR!

In your case, it seems that the system fonts are being used for rendering emojis. WordPress includes a fallback mechanism where, if the emoji feature detection test fails, emojis are loaded from https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/.

However, since your browser successfully uses system emojis, this fallback behavior isn’t triggered hence, the issue doesn’t occur on your end.

[ant1sg]

Hello @Infinite-Null yes I just noticed all the comments on Trac, I had not seen them. Sorry about that. I'll try to rerun the test properly

[iamsandeepdahiya]

I tried and this patch submitted and it is working perfectly. Thanks.

[Infinite-Null]

Closing as merged 60680