Upgrade to Twemoji 17.0.1.

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;
 	}
 

tests/phpunit/tests/formatting/emoji.php

@@ -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;