Is there an option to stop the Issue GET API from auto-injecting Emojis into my rich text fields?

[James Rickards _Spark-Nel_]

We have contract clauses in our requirement tickets in a Text Field (multi-line) field. e.g.

REDACTED section 3.1(i), REDACTED

When I retrieve the ticket via the Rest API, Jira is converting the `(i)` to an emoji.

 "content": [ { "type": "paragraph", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "REDACTED section 3.1" }, { "type": "emoji", "attrs": { "shortName": ":info:", "id": "atlassian-info", "text": ":info" } }, { "type": "text", "text": ", REDACTED:" } ] } ]

What I expect to see is :

 "content": [ { "type": "paragraph", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "REDACTED section 3.1(i), REDACTED" } ] } ]

When we view the ticket via the UI it correctly displays without the emoji so it is the rest API that is injecting it.

Is there a parameter or option that I can add to the request to prevent Jira from corrupting text when retrieved via the REST API?

I need the RestAPI to return accurate data as I need to be doing some comparisons between what is in Jira and what is in other systems, and I don't want to have to be post-processing everything that comes out of Jira to remove Emojis.


Edit: Corrected where I had said Rich Text as the field is in-fact a Text Field (multi-line), this makes it worse as I would not expect emoji support in a text field.

[Vishal Biyani]

@James Rickards _Spark-Nel_ 

The format that you are showing is ADF (Atlassian Document Format). Do you need rich text in this column? if not, you can change the render for this field to text. 

Can you check what is the rendered for this field? 

Project settings -> Issues -> Fields -> Click on pencil icon to edit

Then you will see the render option