Inserted Table of Contents. Exported to PDF and there is unwanted text next to each title

[Matthew Hoye]

I'm creating a knowledge article using Confluence and inserted a Table of Contents. My titles are:

Instructions

Test

Testing

Company

After publishing the article, I exported it to PDF. The table of contents show with unwanted characters before the title. It looks like this:

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions

\uD83D\uDCD8 Test

\uD83D\uDCD8 Testing

\uD83D\uDCD8 Company

\uD83D\uDCD8 Related articles

Is there a way for me to have the export not automatically display the unwanted \uD83D\uDCD8 , while keeping the functionality of being able to skip down to the related section when clicking on a title inside the table of contents? 

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Matthew Hoye welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Are you by any chance using Emoji's in your titles? The string that is being generate next to the names (\uD83D\uDCD8) is the string for a Blue Book (📘) emoji.

Check out the specs here.

I imagine that the engine that converts to PDF is having trouble converting that code and is rendering the text. Do you have any other emojs on your page? Are they rendering?

I think you are bumping in to this issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-71740?

Hope this helps.

[Matthew Hoye]

Ah.. That was it, thank you. 

[Andy Gladstone]

@Matthew Hoye glad my answer helped. Kindly mark it as accepted so others with the same issue can more easily find (and trust) this answer.

Have a great day!