It's now possible to disable default emoticons by editing xwiki.properties and overriding the mapping with an empty value. For example to disable (n) you'd add:
rendering.transformation.icon.mappings = (n) =
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It's now possible to disable default emoticons by editing xwiki.properties and overriding the mapping with an empty value. For example to disable (n) you'd add: