I feel embarrassed to ask. Was thinking that :) would be turned into a smiley face but that doesn't work. I did some searching but most of the hits talks about a Windows computer. I'm running a linux desktop. Was looking for some sort of links on what the post editor supports but didn't find any such links. Our gifs/qposts sidebar link doesn't mention emoji's.
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I'll be honest with you, I right-click my mouse and the menu has an option for "Emoji", although maybe this is browser-specific? You can select a number of emoji options from there. I use Brave.
[EDIT: You have to right-click within a text/comment box. The "emoji" option won't show up otherwise.]
Thank you!!! I have been trying to figure that out forever!! 😁
Now this is what I assumed might be the case. I'm using Brave also, but I don't see any emoji option in the context menu when in the editbox. Maybe I need to install some add-on.
I have Windows 10 (ugh), which might be the difference? I'm not using any add-ons and Brave shields are up.
They might be in your phone's keypad/keyboard.
Come on' man, only kids use phones to surf the web and watch TV. Why use my phone when I have a perfectly good 27" monitor connected to my laptop?
Only mods (moderators) can add emoji’s to your username.
I'm not looking to add them to my username. I'm referring adding them to a post/comment.
Good one. And yes, us linux users are superior, we just don't like to brag. 🙂
I'm not familiar with that meme.
I'm a developer. Been doing it for 30+ years. I worked on Windows and Linux. I guess everyone will have their own opinion. Linux, in my opinion, is the superior OS. By the way, I actually worked at Microsoft many years ago. Windows certainly has the edge in home use. Corporate america servers are mainframes and Linux. Windows on the desktop because of email and office apps. Most home users wouldn't know the difference if they switched to Linux as they probably are in the browser 100% of the time. Tablets - iOS and Linux. Phones - iOS and Linux. Apple, Steve Jobs I think, was smart when they switched to using a customized version of BSD Unix for their OS.
Hey, maybe Linux is new to them and they're just figuring this stuff out! Let's help them, not condescend to them.
My sarcasm detector doesn't work all the time, as the internet is a place of wonder and mystery!
Things like this make it easy. Copy and paste.
https://getemoji.com/
😀
This might be the best and most viable way to answer the OP's question!
Find somewhere to cut and paste from.
eg. https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/ is this one 😊
The advantage of this method is it works just about anywhere.
Here's your full list!
Unicode is your friend!
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
Thanks. And how do I enter a unicode character or set of characters into a post or comment?
Hmm... actually, disregard this! I don't think .win supports unicode or HTML-based symbols when entering them manually. Numpad entries work of course, but it seems the only way to properly implement emojis here is to find a site where you can copy + paste them (as solarsavior linked above), or use .win on mobile where they are readily available via your phone's keyboard.
I usually like keyboard solutions over gui/mouse solutions. I know there are some editors that used to allow you to enter characters via typing in their octal numeric codes. Of course handling some typical ascii characters as many apps do would be easier. For instance, I would think it should be easy to handle :) as a smiley face. I guess everyone would see it as a smiley face anyways, but putting in the graphic would be useful.
I agree, sometimes I wish .win had more customization options, but I suppose that would allow for more security vulnerabilities?