diff --git a/src/libclient/utils/html.cpp b/src/libclient/utils/html.cpp
index 8f201128a1..2adfd6439e 100644
--- a/src/libclient/utils/html.cpp
+++ b/src/libclient/utils/html.cpp
@@ -77,12 +77,21 @@ QString wrapEmoji(const QString &input, const QString &replacement)
 	// emoji, but it should hopefully be close enough for our use case.
 	// https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#EBNF_and_Regex
 	static QRegularExpression re{
-		"(\\p{RI}\\p{RI}|\\p{Emoji}(\\p{EMod}|\\x{FE0F}\\x{20E3}?|[\\x{E0020}-"
+		"([aA]|\\p{RI}\\p{RI}|\\p{Emoji}(\\p{EMod}|\\x{FE0F}\\x{20E3}?|[\\x{E0020}-"
 		"\\x{E007E}]+\\x{E007F})?(\\x{200D}(\\p{RI}\\p{RI}|\\p{Emoji}(\\p{EMod}"
 		"|\\x{FE0F}\\x{20E3}?|[\\x{E0020}-\\x{E007E}]+\\x{E007F})?))*)+"};
-	QString s = input;
-	s.replace(re, replacement);
-	return s;
+	static bool errorShown = false;
+	if(re.isValid()) {
+		QString s = input;
+		s.replace(re, replacement);
+		return s + " also <span class=\"emoji\">🌈</span> <span class=\"emoji\">🫶🫡💀🔥🌘✅🫠</span>";
+	} else {
+		if(!errorShown) {
+			qWarning("Error compiling emoji regex: %s at position %d", qUtf8Printable(re.errorString()), int(re.patternErrorOffset()));
+			errorShown = true;
+		}
+		return input;
+	}
 }
 
 }