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Emoji in stories?

Quasirandom 🚫

Support question for Lazeez.

UTF-8 supports emojis, or at least some of the common ones like πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‘. Can we include them in stories and have them display "correctly" to readers (at least per how whatever platform/device supports them)?

Switch Blayde 🚫

@Quasirandom

Can we include them in stories

Just out of curiosity, where would you use one in a story?

helmut_meukel 🚫

@Switch Blayde

Just out of curiosity, where would you use one in a story?

When the character reads or writes an email.
Seems to me the only situation where it makes sense.

HM.

Quasirandom 🚫

@Switch Blayde

I write teensβ€”who text all the time with emojis.

Jason Samson 🚫

@Quasirandom

Lazeez asked me to remove the emojis when I added some to the title and description of one of my stories.

There was another thread about this a really long while back and I just remember that someone suggested that you spell out the emojis e.g. :smile: and :frown: etc. I liked that idea and remembered it :)

Quasirandom 🚫

@Jason Samson

I can understand emoji not working for titles and descriptions β€” the code for entering/displaying those is very different, and text gets mangled (check out what happens to m-dashes for ex) differently depending on where you enter such metadata.

awnlee jawking 🚫

@Jason Samson

I will now imagine colons bracketing every story occurrence of the solitary noun 'giggle'.

AJ

Replies:   richardshagrin
richardshagrin 🚫

@awnlee jawking

colons

colon os copy likely painful.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Quasirandom

UTF-8 supports emojis, or at least some of the common ones like πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‘. Can we include them in stories and have them display "correctly" to readers (at least per how whatever platform/device supports them)?

Yes, they're allowed in story text and if the viewing platform supports them, they'll be displayed correctly.

Replies:   Quasirandom
Quasirandom 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Coo. Thanks!

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