Emojis

This work got prioritised in an effort to solve another forum issue. It was part of another, larger, update initially, but patched in today separately.

So, the old smiley images are gone, replaced by the full suite of emojis instead. A few extra clickables emojis have been added when posting, but any variation can be cut and pasted into a post or typed on an emoji supporting device. (Mac Book Pro users - finally a use for your touchbar thing. 😉 )

The old smileys are swapped to emojis at render time, so old posts will work as before. So ": )" will become "🙂".

Messages on mobiles will now be sent with Emojis intact.

If the emoji usage becomes too irritating, they will be heavily restricted in the forums. (But not PMs/over the board chat)

Originally posted by @montymoose
At RHP we like our emojis small, square, and yellow! 🙂

Not any more, you don't.

Those old animated guys served us well though for nearly 20 years. 👍

Meh, I liked the old ones better.

😛

🙂 😀 😆 😉 😛 😕 😠 😳 🙁 😢 😞 😏 🤔 😵 😲 🙄 😴 😍
We seem to have gone backwards here. I use keystroke emojis, so that means that most of my learned combinations render as empty boxes. The others are so small and pale that I can't figure out what is meant to represent what, unless I enlarge text to 8x normal size. So: ^ ^ clown wink ^ ^ scowl doubt ^ crying sad smile ^ blank surprise ^ ^ drunk is what I see here.
How do I find out what keystrokes to use for the ones I actually want? The old "reply&quote" method no longer works.

Thanks Russ, much appreciated 👍

Progress Kewpie, progress 🤣😃😉👍

@Kewpie The emojis are not being served up by RHP, they are rendered based on established codes for each image and your browser/OS.*

Some interesting comparisons here :

https://blog.emojipedia.org/2018-the-year-of-emoji-convergence/

*Windows Vista does not support emoji, nor does any version prior to it.

Originally posted by @russ
So, the old smiley images are gone, replaced by the full suite of emojis instead.

✌🍆🍆❌🚫🙈💩💩😕

Emojim are for illiterates.

Originally posted by @russ
@Kewpie The emojis are not being served up by RHP, they are rendered based on established codes for each image and your browser/OS.*

Some interesting comparisons here :

https://blog.emojipedia.org/2018-the-year-of-emoji-convergence/

*Windows Vista does not support emoji, nor does any version prior to it.

So how can I create an emoji in an in-game message, using a normal keyboard?

Originally posted by @kewpie
So how can I create an emoji in an in-game message, using a normal keyboard?

You can continue with the previous method ( character sequences such as : ) ) for a limited number of emojis.

Anything else, you must use a virtual keyboard that supports it.

Win 10 : Windows Key and ; when editing.
OSX : Press Command-Control-Space when editing.

A Win 10 video demonstrating this :

YouTube : Windows 10 Emoji Help

Originally posted by @russ
You can continue with the previous method ( character sequences such as : ) ) for a limited number of emojis.

Anything else, you must use a virtual keyboard that supports it.

Win 10 : [b]Windows Key and ; when editing.
OSX : Press Command-Control-Space when editing.

A Win 10 video demonstrating this :

[youtube Windows 10 Emoji Help]FbaohtbjQ9g[/youtube][/b]

Brilliant
At last we have the.....
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. Back.

My browser (Chrome) doesn't show any emojis anymore; they're just hollow squares.

Originally posted by @fmf
My browser (Chrome) doesn't show any emojis anymore; they're just hollow squares.

Windows 7?

Originally posted by @russ
Windows 7?

Yes.

Strange that you don't see *any* emojis - is your Windows 7 OS receiving "updates"? (Security fixes, etc)