Emoji old -> new android aren't displayed correctly

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Emojis sent from an older android version produce unicode error icons on newer android versions at the receiving end

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I’ll add more information when I know more and a screenshot when/if I fixed the rustcore crashing on those invalid emojis.

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Ok, the rust core doesn’t crash on invalid utf8 anymore, thats good so nothing to fix there, the invalid text gets also displayed on desktop. Here are the promised screen shots:

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This was reported as a mistake a while ago, @hpk made a comment with a possible solution.

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never the less we should consider to account for that in the rust core or notefy the users to update.