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Emoji has a huge set of emoticons which is supported in variety of operating systems, forums (nodebb) and some web software. Is it possible to add support to that?

Yes, switch your database to use utf8_mb4 encoding. This can be done through the admin CP.

To view most emojis on a computer you'll also need a font that contains the characters.

Thanks for your response. I will check it. Can you list the compatible fonts for emoji?

Looks like Windows 8 upward supports it, as does every other major OS: http://blog.getemoji.com/post/5705435433...port-emoji

The post is kinda outdated because I believe Chrome added support for it across all platforms recently (Because they handle the font rendering themselves they can override the OS fonts for Emoji characters).
I appear to have decent support for emoji using Firefox on Windows 7, albeit not with coloured characters. This update seems to've added some support.

ok. How do we integrate Emoji's into Mybb ?

I'm also interested, waiting.

Two options:
Load the webfont: http://emojisymbols.com/
Or utilise the PHP-Emoji library to convert the characters to images https://github.com/iamcal/php-emoji. That will require a plugin to be made but will probably work better.

thanks for this Cameron, but I don't know how to load the webfont nor utilize the Emoji library, sorry for being newbie. Can you please guide on how to do this? I want the 2nd choice because it looks like it's completely packaged and seems it only needs to convert the emoji character to emoji images. Thanks again

EDIT: I've found this while searching from GitHub, all emoji images came from .png file.

https://github.com/arvida/emoji-cheat-sheet.com

I read the License and it says

All other emoji images
Copyright © 2012 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

Is it okay to host those emoji images on forum to be added on emoticons? Is it applicable only for supporting site's?

BUMP for this, can anyone? can I use Emoji emoticons on my forum? I'm bothered on the Apple licensed

I'll look into making a plugin for it.

As for licensing, there is SIL-licensed set of emoji characters: https://github.com/Genshin/PhantomOpenEmoji