Unicode characters are converted to emojis in custom status texts

Observed behaviour

Unicode characters such as ⏸ (U+23F8) are suddenly converted to emojis, when they are present in a custom status text. In my opinion they should not be, as the user would otherwise have entered the emoji, if they wanted the emoji (U+23F8 U+FE0F). This was not the case in the following version, which is the version of my desktop installation:

stable build 508 (3250c73), 2026-06-06 21:26:08 UTC, Electron 40.0.0, Linux 7.2.5-200.fc44.x86_64 (x64), desktop stable 0.0.0

Screenshots are attached below.

Reproduction steps

Go to your profile
Set a custom status
Enter ⏸ as the text
Observe that the emoji is shown instead. There is no way to show the intended character

Build information

Canary Web 2026.915.160715, Linux (x64), Firefox 155.0, Locale en-US

Platform

Web

Evidence

On the current Canary web version: image On my stable desktop version (and also the non-canary stable web version): image