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Fix #65431: Remove emoji from slugs during URL generation#12115

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PROBLEM:
When creating posts with emoji in titles (like '🚀 Rocket'),
the slug becomes URL-encoded emoji characters causing broken URLs.

SOLUTION:
Strip emoji characters from slugs before sanitization.

CHANGES:

  • Add _remove_emoji_from_slug_filter() function
  • Hook at priority 9 (before main sanitization)
  • Add remove_emoji_from_slug filter for backward compatibility
  • Add 5 unit tests

HOW TO TEST:

  1. Create new post with title: 'Test Emoji 🎉'
  2. Check the generated slug
  3. Slug should be 'test-emoji' (emoji removed)
  4. Emoji in slug should NOT be URL-encoded

Trac Ticket - https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65431

When creating posts with emoji in titles, the generated slug contains URL-encoded emoji characters causing potential SEO and compatibility issues.

This fix strips emoji (Unicode range U+10000 to U+10FFFF) from slugs while preserving normal accented characters like café.

Includes filter 'remove_emoji_from_slug' to allow backward compatibility.

Props trung855100, siliconforks

See #65431
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