Emoji on the forum

[Dave Keenan]

:icecream:, huh? Looks suspiciously like soft serve...

But what is "soft serve" a soft serve of ? Is this better? It's ice<underscore>cream.

In any case, what other secret smilies are you holding out on us?

They are considered emoji rather than smileys, and are built in to phpBB, I think it's via a third party server. They are simply Unicode characters.

So you can use WinCompose to type their hex code points.
⎄u1f368⏎ = :ice_cream: =

And you can scale them.
[size=400]:icecream:[/size] =

I had a hell of a time finding a list of the :colon_codes: for them. It seems like this might be one, but displayed in a different font.
https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

Here's a cool one. :sagittarius: =

[Dave Keenan]

OK. I just learned that the emoji "font" used by phpBB is the Twitter emoji font, also called Twemoji, as shown here in the column marked "Twtr".
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

But Twitter does not specify the :colon_codes:, which appear to be the same as those in the GitHub page I linked in the previous post, and not the same as the column marked "CLDR short names" in the table linked above.

If you enter an emoji as a unicode character, then you will see it in the post editor in the "font" called "Browser" in the table linked above.