Emoji Support

It would be nice to have system wide support for Emoji.

Designers

AllanDay, JakubSteiner, HylkeBons, LapoCalamandrei, AndreasNilsson

Objectives

• Allow inputting emoji.
• Emoji input should be more prominent in places where it is common, such as chat and email. However, it should be possible everywhere.
• Input with a variety of input devices: keyboard, pointing device, touchscreen.
• Support displaying emoji wherever text is displayed.

Non Goals

• Animated emoji

Relevant Art

For design of emoji characters themselves, see /Artwork.

GNOME

Using the uniemoji input method: https://github.com/lalomartins/ibus-uniemoji

OS X

More details here: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/

iOS

See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4976

Windows

EmojiHelper

Discord

Discussion

• Could this be part of CharacterMap?

Tentative Design

Available input methods:

1. Emoji chooser popover - can be accessible from a dedicated button and through a system shortcut.

2. Characters - should have a section for copying emoji to the clipboard.

3. Automatically convert text. For example: :) is converted to .

4. Automatically convert emoji codes. For example: :grin: is converted to .

5. On screen keyboard.

Emoji Chooser

See Also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Color_Emoji

• http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/

• http://probablement.net/txt/emojilinux

• http://gizmodo.com/that-emoji-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it-means-1770296372

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/emoj

• http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pushed-to-remove-the-rifle-emoji-from-unicode-9-0/

Related

• On Screen Keyboard