The /poll widget does not support emoji display.

[Carnage78]

The /poll widget displays the emoji text, not the emoji image.
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[aparna-bhatt]

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[sayamsamal]

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Hello @zulip/server-emoji members, this issue was labeled with the "area: emoji" label, so you may want to check it out!

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[sayamsamal]

I plan on working on this issue as part of GSOC '22.

[alya]

@sayamsamal If you aren't actively working on it (I think you've got a few higher-priority issues on your plate?), you can go ahead an unassign yourself. We don't expect folks to work precisely on the issues they put in their GSoC proposal, and it's best to leave issues open unless you're actively working on them, in case someone else would like to pick it up. You can always help by reviewing another contributor's work as well. Thanks!

[sayamsamal]

@alya thank you for the guidance and clarification, I'll unassign myself from the issue for others to take up.

[sayamsamal]

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[sayamsamal]

For anyone picking up this issue, I'd like to leave some notes.

1. The issue is not only related to emojis but to the complete markdown, meaning none of the markdown is rendered in the poll widget.
2. For knowledge on how to handle the markdown, please refer to https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/markdown.html to know about the markdown implementation being used by Zulip.

[alya]

Thanks! Yeah, I don't think we have short-term plans to solve the general problem, but anyone working on this should also consider fixing #12947 and #16821.