Starbase101
I got the question marks too - Apple Safari browser, English language.

scalemates
same here, I assume it is an Emoticon directly added from the phone. I'll investigate ...

we support many alphabets since day one (ok, maybe a bit later)... small test:

На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн, И вдаль глядел. Пред ним широко

受罚者

平仮名

Spanjaard
you are probably right. i see a line in proper Cyrillic characters, one in Chinese and one in Japanese (all according to google translate when i copy and paste those lines). all 3 look ok and can be copy paste into google translate without issues

Spanjaard
Steve said he actually entered it from his laptop, not from phone.

scalemates
did he say what he entered?

Spanjaard
ìt was supposed to be a thumbs up

Spanjaard
i have sent him a PM with the link to this thread, so maybe he can provide more details.

Steve Cassidy
Hi guys i'm based in the uk and I believe I tried to add this via Google chrome on my laptop

scalemates
did you type a ( y ) resulting in 👍 or did you select the built in thumbsup in your browser/app?

Steve Cassidy
I think i used the built in thumbs up

scalemates
can you try it again here? 🙂

wilky
I can't use emojis, they never work.
I have an android phone.
I'll do a couple
????????????⭐

wilky
The star worked.
I did four a thumbs up, smiley face and laughing with tears plus the star that worked

scalemates
Thx!

wilky
????????⚡✨????⭐????????☠️????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????☹️????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????☺️????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????✍️????????????????????????????????????????✌️????????????✋????️????✊????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????️????????????????️????

wilky
It looks like if it doesn't work four question marks appear

Steve Cassidy
Hmm, from my laptop browser I don't get a thumbs up, so must have been from my iphone. let me try that

Steve Cassidy
Testing ???? ???? ???? ????

Steve Cassidy
Yep problems with iphone using chrome

Chaz Gordon
????????????????????????????????

playtime 222
It's all emoticons from phone keyboards.

scalemates
I'll investigate if I can capture the common ones and transform them to standard scalemates entries

JD
Yes! More emojis!

Starbase101
I don't think the plan is to increase the number of supported emojis, instead it's to try recognizing "special" characters from the emoji font set and translate them to the standard SCM emoji syntax. One of these might be helpful... [img1]

playtime 222
@Starbase101 That way lies madness 😄 Its a bit of a rabbit hole.... unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html. It's up to Tim obvs but directly supporting the unicode with something like code.iamcal.com/php/emoji/ may be of use.

scalemates
??

playtime 222
Those 2 rendered fine.

playtime 222
I wonder if the easier path is a) fully support emojis with a library then b) map the common scalemates shorthand to unicode? Also xkcd.com/927/ 😄

scalemates
Testing multiskin ??????????☝??????

playtime 222
Nice. And it all still works in UTF-8 too.

scalemates
From different browser ?⛷?⛸?????‍♀️??????????????⬛️????⬜️??✔️??????????????????????????????????

scalemates
@Playtime: agreed, that is the path I'm after since last night

playtime 222
Looks like significant progress today then 😄

scalemates
it is 🙂, including mapper to 🙁 and 😠

scalemates
? test 🙁

playtime 222
????

playtime 222
That was directly from android keyboard into Firefox.

scalemates
Cool! Glad to see it is working... still holding my breath nothing else broke while making this change. ?

playtime 222
Regressions... Regressions... 😄

playtime 222
😄 👍

playtime 222
And the ( Y ) also works. Good job sir.

scalemates
should be changed to 👍 as from know on, even if you type ( y ) 😄

playtime 222
👍

playtime 222
Not yet :-/ Hitting ctrl-F5... Nope not a refresh thing (Duh why would it be - PHP is server side....)

scalemates
👍 now also for capital letters ( Y )

playtime 222
Oh hahaha thats what it was 😄 👍 👍

playtime 222
So what about :-/ then? 😄 Suppose that depends on the library you use?

scalemates
it was not a supported one before?

playtime 222
I dont think it was, no. Don't worry on my behalf. That one is more useful at work, not here.

scalemates
this one is now marked as fixed for all new entries! Unfortunately older entries with the ???? can not be fixed

playtime 222
Not unless you invent a time machine😉

Spanjaard
Great job, thanks!!

Starbase101
Great work Tim! The newsfeed is likely to get more colorful now. For people using the desktop version rather than access through a tiny phone screen, would there be a way of adding a small sort of "toolbar" above text fields (collapsed by default, but could be expanded with a "gear" icon) where you could offer clickable emojis for inserting, and bold/italic text options? This would provide access to the new emoji support for non-phone-users, and offer the ability to highlight/emphasize text without SHOUTING. 🙂

Chaz Gordon
???????? ooooohh

wilky
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