Emoji Update Request

It's my understanding that there are 8 emojis aka smilies (mad, adoration, blush, dancing, dunno, phbbbbt, prayer, and tee hee) that are currently hosted on an old server and not working with certain browsers.

I would like to know if there is any intention of moving these 8 emojis from the old server to a new server that supports HTTPS. I hope this is not a huge ask, but I wanted to make this formal request as my question is getting buried in the technical thread.

Stretch goal: Since the last emoji update I believe there are more Star Wars related emojis available. So if the move of "the 8" is happening, it would be cool if we could get any new ones added to the current library if available.

Thank you for considering this request.

From the "post technical questions and issues" thread for reference:

 

Yes, this is happening eventually, included an expansion of the emoji roster.

 

Better see Zuckuss in there.

 

I would use the heck out of a thumbs up emoji.

Why do R2, Chopper, and BB8 all have 2 emojis, and there's none for Wedge, or Poe?

 

Genuinely curious are the Star Wars emojis custom or did you get them from somewhere

 

The only acceptable option:



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They are adapted and resized versions of the official Star Wars emojis. Yes, that’s a thing! I have a full second set ready to go, and I’ve had for a long time, but as you may know we are dependent on a third party to access the server. Less than ideal, but it’s what it is!

 

The only acceptable option is ?

 

Yes, it's extremely meta.

 

In a way, it is:



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Well whenever they get added I’ll be sure to use them once in celebration

 

Harrumph. I needed the mad emoji today and you know what I got? You know how that makes me feel? Harrumph again.

 

there is no starfish emoji

just saying

 

This works: *

 

What about Rey's emoji??

Or a Porg one?? Now THAT would be awesome

 

If there's is no Jaxxon emoji, then what's the point?

 

Hi, I was wondering if there is any plan for the emoji update to happen this year?

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Also, on a possibly related note , is there a reason we can't post green or yellow boxes, but white boxes post? Would adding a yellow and green box emoji in the update be a solution to this problem?

For example, in the Wordle Discussion thread, if I wanted to post the follow boxes:

Line 1: white, green, white, white, green
Line 2: green, green, white, white, green
Line 3: green, green, green, green, green

What you get is:
Line 1: white, white, white
Line 2: white, white

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Thanks!

 

We need a Thrawn emoji.

 

Not in a helpful way. What Wordle copies to your clipboard are emoji. The icons you get here on the boards when you open the smiley-face menu are emoticons. It's a subtle difference, but the essence is this:

Emoji are actual text-like characters (Unicode, for the geeks) just like these letters that are stored as unique codepoints, in the same manner as ordinary text, and can be copied and pasted from one application to another as text. These codepoints display differently on different devices due to system fonts, and are available anywhere Unicode text is supported (which in 2022 is almost everywhere).

Emoticons, on the other hand, long predate emoji. They began as simple text smilies such as :) and its friends, until some bored programmer said "hey, let's auto-convert these to images!" Nowadays emoticons are typically found on message boards like this; they are specific to the message board where they are found and are encoded as a series of letters and symbols (e.g. "[face_laugh]"), which the message board software parses and then replaces with an embedded image file (e.g. ). Because they are images and not text characters, they display identically for all users on all devices but do not survive copying and pasting to other websites or applications.

Warning: Technical content ahead!

Since I don't play it anymore, I looked up the solution to today's Wordle and purposely generated a result with all three colors of boxes, then copied them and pasted them into one of the many Unicode inspectors online to check what characters Wordle is using, and immediately found the problem. The white square is Unicode character U+2B1C WHITE LARGE SQUARE, which is in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which consists of all characters that fit into two bytes (16 bits). However, the yellow and green squares are Unicode characters, respectively, U+1F7E8 LARGE YELLOW SQUARE and U+1F7E9 LARGE GREEN SQUARE, which are outside the BMP and thus need more than 16 bits to represent. Unfortunately, some software does not fully support characters outside the BMP, and it appears that includes the software running these boards.

 

Exactly.