Convert ASCII to Emoji preference does not appear to be honored.

[poandlsl]

Description:

Convert ASCII to Emoji preference does not appear to be honored. After disabling this preference, users still experience ASCII being converted to emojis automatically.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Disable 'Convert ASCII to Emoji' in My Account > Preferences > Messages
2. Send a message containing an ASCII emoticon (:) or The final score was 0:3)
3. Witness :) convert to 😃 and The final score was 0:3 convert to 'The final score was 😇'

Expected behavior:

When 'Convert ASCII to Emoji' is disabled, no ASCII should be converted to emojis.

Actual behavior:

ASCII characters are converted to emojis, despite the disabled setting.

Server Setup Information:

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 5.0.0
• Operating System: Rocky Linux 8.6
• Deployment Method: docker
• Number of Running Instances: 1
• DB Replicaset Oplog: Enabled
• NodeJS Version: 14.19.3
• MongoDB Version: 4.4.15

Client Setup Information

• Desktop App or Browser Version: Rocketchat Desktop Client 3.8.7 and Firefox 103.0
• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04

Additional context

Relevant logs:

[dudanogueira]

Hi! I Can confirm this bug.

We have been changing the Message Parser, and did a Community Open Call about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPF9LpTR94&t=1046s

Thanks for pointing out!

[postwarbreakout]

Same here. We have bots that send file paths and that's a total mess now.
Even simple backslashes just disappear: c:\temp\tempfile becomes "C😕temptempfile".
Is expect this to be fixed soon as it seems to be acknowledged by a dev now?

[postwarbreakout]

By browsing through similar issues, I found a workaround which fixed things for us: #26475 (comment)
Doesn't work in the Android app though.