Have any of you used emojis in text/chat messages your characters send each other? Does SOL (or epubs) support that?
As a reader, what would think of that?
I had one character send an emoji as a reply in A Healing Love, and Paul described the emoji (one of those smiley faces with hearts for eyes) - would it have been better to use the actual emoji?
would it have been better to use the actual emoji?
How would that work in a .txt format download?
AJ
How would that work in a .txt format download?
It's just a character like every other. The text can contain any UTF-8 characters. It's up to the reading device to display it.
Does SOL (or epubs) support that?
The site's system is all UTF-8. So yes. However, it depends on the reader's system if it has that emoji in its character set.
There are almost always new emojis, and not every system has the glyph for it.
So, on balance, probably best to avoid them? That's my instinct, but they are such a part of the way we communicate now, I wondered if it was time to re-evaluate.
I wonder if any commercial authors have used them...
I used them for simulated messages in Teaming With The Shrew, in chapter 9. https://storiesonline.net/n/48299/teaming-with-the-shrew/9
It didn't come out as well as in the epub, but the emojis are all there.