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Questions tagged [emoticons]

Anything related to emoticons or "smileys", i.e. short sequences of ASCII characters (2 or 3 usually) that can be seen as little, stylized faces showing some kind of emotion. Emoticons date back to the origin of the Internet and have been and are used to convey "emotional information" in written messages.

Anything related to emoticons or "smileys", i.e. short sequences of ASCII characters (2 or 3 usually) that can be seen as little, stylized faces showing some kind of emotion. Emoticons date back to the origin of the Internet and have been and are used to convey "emotional information" in written messages.

Some examples:

:-)   happy face, also  :)
:-(   sad face, also  :(
:-D   full-teeth smile, also  :D
=8-O  surprised
:o)   clown
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Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB6\xF0\x9F...' MySQL

I am trying to store a tweet in my MYSQL table. The tweet is: quiero que me escuches, no te burles no te rias, anoche tuve un sueño que te fuiste de mi vida 🎶🎶 The final two characters are both 'MULTIPLE MUSICAL NOTES' (U+1F3B6), for which the…
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Implementations of Emoji (Emoticon) View/Keyboard Layouts

I am trying to figure out how the emoji (emoticon) selections are implemented on the Facebook app and the Google Hangouts app. I looked into the SoftKeyboard Demo app in the Android API Samples but the display of these emoji views does not look…
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How to insert emoticons in LaTeX?

I know it's a long shot, but is there some package or means to insert emoticons into a LaTeX document?
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Displaying emoticons in Android

My IM app has to support emoticons. They are GIFs and have textual representations, which are used in the input box if the user selects one of them. But I'd like to display them as images after they have been sent.Currently my custom array adapter…
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Add emoji / emoticon to SQL Server table

I am trying to insert emoji / emoticons to a SQL Server database but it just stores ??? instead of the emoji / emoticons. I am finding only help for SQL Server not MySQL. I tried : link but not finding answers even not able to set with : ALTER TABLE…
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How to display emoji char in HTML

I saved the face "savouring delicious food emoji" to database, and read it in php json_encode which show "uD83D\uDE0B"。 but usually we use one label to replace it . however,usually I just find this format '\uE056' not "uD83D\uDE0B",to…
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special characters (emoticons) in text file

I have a txt file of an conversation exported from WhatsApp. WhatsApp supports emoticons in their conversation, and the exported conversation also, to my surprise, contains these emoticons! That is, if I open the text file in a text editor (Text…
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Show Custom emoticon in Android Keyboard

I have been trying for the last 3 days to show a graphical custom emoticon in the default android message view. I have successfully shown my custom emoticons in place of keys. Now the problem is that I am trying to show a drawable in spanable string…
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Replace a list of emoticons with their images

I have an array with: emoticons = { ':-)' : 'smile1.gif', ':)' : 'smile2.gif', ':D' : 'smile3.gif' } then i have a variabile with the text. var text = 'this is a simple test :)'; and a variable with the url of the website var url =…
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Bootstrap 3.0.3 glyphicons displaying emoticons on iOS 7

I use Bootstrap 3.0.3 glyphicons. All is ok on desktop browsers and on Android devices. My problem is about Apple devices (tested on iPhone and iPad running iOS7). The glyphicons look like emoticons. I've found some issues but not answering my…
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How to convert emoticons to its UTF-32/escaped unicode?

I am working on a chatting application in WPF and I want to use emoticons in it. I am working on WPF app. I want to read emoticons which are coming from Android/iOS devices and show respective images. On WPF, I am getting a black Emoticon looking…
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Detect emoticons in string

I found that you need PHP 7 and MySQL 5.5 to use emoticons in a string that you want to upload to the database. I don't have these specification on my server so I want to give an error message in laravel or php. Is there a way to detect emoticons…
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Check if there is an emoji contained in a string

I am getting the text size of a string with this textSize = [[tempDict valueForKeyPath:@"caption.text"] sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:12] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(280, CGFLOAT_MAX) lineBreakMode: NSLineBreakByWordWrapping]; The only…
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Emoticons support for textarea or contenteditable div

Trying to implement a textarea component with emoticons support while writing. I want to be able to backup the original text (ascii chars only) while presenting the filtered/generated html outcome (with an angular emoticons filter) on a div. My…
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Extract emoticons from a text

I need to extract text emoticons from a text using Python and I've been looking for some solutions to do this but most of them like this or this only cover simple emoticons. I need to parse all of them. Currently I'm using a list of emoticons that I…
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