Community Suggestion: Emoji Support
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
My story is set in a world like ours with cellphones, social media and email. I have sections that include text exchanges and messages between characters, but WA manuscripts have no support for emoji and refuse to save if these characters are present, limiting this type of exchange to dry old-fashioned irc text-based emotes ;) I recognize that this may be a niche issue and I'm not sure how difficult it is from a technical perspective to allow these symbols, but wanted to open that conversation at least.How does this feature request address the current situation?
If we can use emoji we can represent a very common form of modern communication.What are other uses for this feature request?
Outside of manuscripts: I've also noted at times that it would be nice to use emoji as regular icons in different places. I realize we have font-awesome and rpg-awesome support in several places, but using those options is sometimes overly complicated (have to go to another website and search for codes to apply) when regular Unicode emoji are familiar and in broad use already, do the same job and may offer more applicable icons.The Team's Response
This is extremely dangerous to implement on articles since it will require the complete re-encoding of the database and there are several tens of millions of articles there. It's already implemented on the Discussion boards (sneakily) and I can implement it in some other non super vital systems but certainly not on articles.
Current score
39/300 Votes · +4180 points
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by Seiaeka
on 2021-12-27 23:01 -
+100
by A Lusty Unicorn
on 2021-12-27 03:51 -
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by MGatta
on 2021-12-24 08:44Even for a fantasy medieval world having emojis would be great. It'd expand the array of images that we can add (aka: on top of the icons)
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by Gortoza Studios
on 2021-12-22 16:46 -
-100
by A Cute Dryad
on 2021-12-22 02:03 -
+10
by Dthornton1717
on 2021-12-21 18:21 -
-300
by A Mischievous Dryad
on 2021-12-20 21:20 -
+20
by J3llyTurtle
on 2021-12-19 20:01 -
+300
by Nubs
on 2021-12-18 08:01 -
+300
by CristalViper
on 2021-12-17 23:15 -
+300
by PrincessHoneytea
on 2021-12-16 16:36 -
+300
by RibenLARP
on 2021-12-16 16:13 -
+300
by Criisper
on 2021-12-15 06:25 -
+100
by HeavenOnFire
on 2021-12-13 17:10 -
+100
by AuraGuard
on 2021-12-13 11:49I really don't see why not, s'long as it isn't a pain for the developer to implement.
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-300
by Solidseq
on 2021-12-12 20:51 -
+100
by Bonus Action
on 2021-12-12 20:49 -
+10
by TulkasIV
on 2021-12-12 18:11 -
+20
by Snake__Venom
on 2021-12-12 10:33 -
-300
by A Goodhearted Hobbit
on 2021-12-11 22:28 -
+10
by PrincessESH
on 2021-12-11 19:37 -
+300
by Twelve
on 2021-12-11 15:57 -
+50
by TheDarkMantle
on 2021-12-11 15:38 -
+10
by SpecterN7
on 2021-12-11 01:37 -
+100
by TheDoctor292
on 2021-12-11 00:53 -
+300
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+10
by kalvorp
on 2021-12-10 20:24One potential solution to your problem is recreating the text message conversation using a phone template from one of various sites that lets a person make spoof message conversations. You could then upload the conversations as images - even have a seperate image folder for them, potentially. That said, I was initially very against it, but your points are well made in my opinion. Emoji are much more accessable and familiar to the majority than fontawesome or rpgawesome. Use as icons is a neat idea!
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+300
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+10
by Michael Chandra
on 2021-12-10 08:16 -
+300
by Amancham
on 2021-12-10 07:15 -
+200
by A Sneaky Dwarf
on 2021-12-10 01:43 -
+50
by Tobus
on 2021-12-10 00:50 -
+10
by cedes
on 2021-12-09 23:40 -
+200
by blurrito
on 2021-12-09 21:45 -
+10
by Adcheryl
on 2021-12-09 15:15 -
+50
by A Fluffy Elf
on 2021-12-09 10:59 -
+300
by Dalf32
on 2021-12-09 02:45 -
+300
by Tatortotzke
on 2021-12-09 00:52 -
+50
by A Enfeebled Ooze
on 2021-12-08 22:57 -
+300
by Scyoni
on 2021-12-08 20:57
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