Emoji Encoding

[therother]

I'm afraid the more exotic characters have always been a black box for me as well.

As to why some won't work on the Org, I suspect this is due to the database using the (then) default MySQL database collation latin1, which is a single byte character set. latin1 doesn't support as wide an array of characters that a multibyte character set such as utf8, which is I believe the current default. We moved to vBulletin 15 years ago, which was when the decision was made. IIRC, converting the database to utf8 isn't straightforward, particularly such a large and old database as the Org's.

[Montmorency]

You're right, I forgot that you mentioned the browsers (shame on me). They do show up for me on Youtube, in the app and in Edge on my phone and also in my Vivaldi browser, which is based on Chromium. Edge on the desktop has them as well.
They still don't show up here on the Org though. Which makes it really strange because now it seems like in some cases it depends on the website and in others on the browser.

What is your OS? Do you use Windows 10 or an older one? Since you mentioned IE but not Edge. There could be an element of OS support as well.

W7

I'm afraid the more exotic characters have always been a black box for me as well.

As to why some won't work on the Org, I suspect this is due to the database using the (then) default MySQL database collation latin1, which is a single byte character set. latin1 doesn't support as wide an array of characters that a multibyte character set such as utf8, which is I believe the current default. We moved to vBulletin 15 years ago, which was when the decision was made. IIRC, converting the database to utf8 isn't straightforward, particularly such a large and old database as the Org's.

Raises the specter of the Org shutting down as maintenance becomes unmanageable with time.

[Husar]

W7

That could easily be part of your problem. Perhaps Firefox has some kind of built-in emoji support while IE and Chrome rely on the OS for that. I don't think W7 has native emoji support like Win10 does. Does not seem like the sort of thing they would patch in shortly before the end of official support.

edit with further research: https://blog.getemoji.com/post/57054...-support-emoji

Windows — Windows 8 and 8.1

Internet Explorer — Yes!
Firefox — Yes!
Safari — Yes!
Chrome — No ☹
☹ If using Windows 7, Windows Vista, or any other early version of Windows, you will not see Emoji correctly in any browser.

And to finally nail the Firefox thing as well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)

So it's basically that your Windows does not support emojis, but Firefox has special built-in emoji support since version 50. That's why you only see them in Firefox and nowhere else.

You could have a look at this, but not sure what exactly could go wrong or what it does: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...d-24b7bec8c444

[nicholascn]

great work