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Emoji on the forum
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:25 pm
by Dave Keenan
cmloegcmluin wrote:Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:58 am
: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: =
Re: Emoji on the forum
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:37 pm
by 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.