We just merged a custom emoji set by @Todd into core and I'm totally in love with it.

Linc

They are called "Little" and will be coming to this site immediately upon release, probably in less than 24 hours of me posting this. They're very retro.

Our emoji support just got awesome, and we're going to be releasing an "extender" plugin for making your own emoji sets super easily. Stay tuned!

x00

Is there a stick waving emoji?

Linc

R_J

Oh yeah! I love smileys with "hands"

Bleistivt

Internet Explorer praying for a higher market share

Linc

They're heeeeeeeeere.

Bleistivt

Excellent work!

hgtonight

Took me a while to figure out how to add them since the advanced editor only shows 12 of them.

Anonymoose

• Emoji refers to a specific characterset which originated in Japan and is now mapped onto the Unicode standard. Emoji characters are now supported in many operating systems, after initial support on phones.

• Emoticons refers to generic use of characters made up of punctuation and other letters and their graphical display.

Vanilla has no Emoji support. I'm just tried typing in Emoji here, and they don't work.

Vanilla does have custom Emoticon support, as seen in this thread.

x00

@Anonymoose said:
• Emoji refers to a specific characterset which originated in Japan and is now mapped onto the Unicode standard. Emoji characters are now supported in many operating systems, after initial support on phones.

Support for multi-chromatic fonts is not universal, so in the end its substitution for a picture often. So really the only difference is what is used to substitute the characters.

http://blog.symbolset.com/multicolor-fonts

subdreamer

Nice emoticons!

x00

Emotions are great in the right context, but sometimes on a support forum it can clash.

If you are trying to get sensible responses to help offered and all you get is

no work. plz help

It kind of lowers the tone.

Just my 50p

Linc

@x00 I dunno, you might get more sympathy with adorable emoticons.

x00

It is more the emotional maturity that I worry about. it is maybe 1 in 10 people. But you when get one you really one, all emotions and little feedback.

if it were me probably they would get a warning, and then banned if they continue.

Linc

@x00 said:
It is more the emotional maturity that I worry about.

Me too. I will let you know when I've found some.

Anonymoose

Linc

@Anonymoose said:
• Emoji refers to a specific characterset which originated in Japan and is now mapped onto the Unicode standard. Emoji characters are now supported in many operating systems, after initial support on phones.

• Emoticons refers to generic use of characters made up of punctuation and other letters and their graphical display.

We had a true nerd debate internally today over this. I took this position. @Todd and @initvector took the "emoji can be a generic term" stance with Todd going so far as to say emoticon explicitly means non-images, e.g. :-). @Tim and @beckyvb abstained from the nerdery, and thus the day was lost.

Tim

I helped by providing witty images and useless meta commentary.

Linc

Oh lookee there was a preview page all along http://vanillaforums.org/plugins/EmojiExtender/emoji/little/preview.html

x00

So by "extender" I presume you could extend it yourself, with your own patterns or even with character sets.

Anonymoose

@Linc said:
true nerd debate internally today over this

Fun stuff. I'm having the same debate with other moose here.

Interestingly, the Unicode consortium calls their Emoji characters Emoticons.