Emoji: Update Twemoji to version 17.0.1.

Unicode 17 includes 7 new Emoji code points. All 7 were included in Emoji 17, which was officially released in early September 2025.

In addition to these 7 new single code point Emoji, Emoji 17 also includes 156 additional Emoji possibilities using modifiers or ZWJ sequences to create various gender and skin tone combinations.

“This Emoji update is the best to date by a landslide 🛘“ may not be an opinion you hold. Perhaps you’re disappointed, hearing sad trombones in your head 🪊🪊. Thankfully, there’s a whole treasure chest 🪎  of Emoji to choose from (3,953 and counting).

🫈 But why do I always feel like I'm in The Twilight Zone? And I always feel like somebody's watchin' me? 🫈

Props westonruter, dd32.
Fixes #64184.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61134 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82

Author: desrosj

Gruntfile.js

@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 								}
 
 								// Fetch a list of the files that Twemoji supplies.
-								query = 'query={repository(owner: "jdecked", name: "twemoji") {object(expression: "v16.0.1:assets/svg") {... on Tree {entries {name}}}}}';
+								query = 'query={repository(owner: "jdecked", name: "twemoji") {object(expression: "v17.0.1:assets/svg") {... on Tree {entries {name}}}}}';
 								files = spawn( 'gh', [ 'api', 'graphql', '-f', query] );
 
 								if ( 0 !== files.status ) {

src/js/_enqueues/lib/emoji-loader.js

@@ -271,20 +271,20 @@ function browserSupportsEmoji( context, type, emojiSetsRenderIdentically, emojiR
 			return ! isIdentical;
 		case 'emoji':
 			/*
-			 * Does Emoji 16.0 cause the browser to go splat?
+			 * Is there a large, hairy, humanoid mythical creature living in the browser?
 			 *
-			 * To test for Emoji 16.0 support, try to render a new emoji: Splatter.
+			 * To test for Emoji 17.0 support, try to render a new emoji: Hairy Creature.
 			 *
-			 * The splatter emoji is a single code point emoji. Testing for browser support
-			 * required testing the center point of the emoji to see if it is empty.
+			 * The hairy creature emoji is a single code point emoji. Testing for browser
+			 * support required testing the center point of the emoji to see if it is empty.
 			 *
-			 * 0xD83E 0xDEDF (\uD83E\uDEDF) == 🫟 Splatter.
+			 * 0xD83E 0x1FAC8 (\uD83E\u1FAC8) == 🫈 Hairy creature.
 			 *
 			 * When updating this test, please ensure that the emoji is either a single code point
 			 * or switch to using the emojiSetsRenderIdentically function and testing with a zero-width
 			 * joiner vs a zero-width space.
 			 */
-			const notSupported = emojiRendersEmptyCenterPoint( context, '\uD83E\uDEDF' );
+			const notSupported = emojiRendersEmptyCenterPoint( context, '\uD83E\u1FAC8' );
 			return ! notSupported;
 	}
 

src/js/_enqueues/vendor/twemoji.js

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
  */
 class Tests_Formatting_Emoji extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 
-	private $png_cdn = 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/';
-	private $svg_cdn = 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/';
+	private $png_cdn = 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.1-1/72x72/';
+	private $svg_cdn = 'https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.1-1/svg/';
 
 	/**
 	 * @ticket 63842
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ public function data_wp_encode_emoji() {
 				'🧚',
 				'🧚',
 			),
+			array(
+				// Hairy creature (Unicode 17).
+				'🫈',
+				'🫈',
+			),
 		);
 	}
 
@@ -192,6 +197,11 @@ public function data_wp_staticize_emoji() {
 				'🧚',
 				'<img src="' . $this->png_cdn . '1f9da.png" alt="🧚" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />',
 			),
+			array(
+				// Hairy creature (Unicode 17).
+				'🫈',
+				'<img src="' . $this->png_cdn . '1fac8.png" alt="🫈" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />',
+			),
 		);
 
 		return $data;