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Remove current icons system and switch to emoji
Reported by wodim on 24 Jan 2015 22:48:51 UTC This is from my personal wishlist:
- Remove the current icons system. In its place, use Ctrl+I to show italics, as mIRC does.
- Use emoji instead. These icons would work only in UTF-8 networks, but they are future-proof, widely known, and already work on several IRC clients (most of them, for smartphones and tablets).
Migrated from: https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/1475
Comment by DarthGandalf on 24 Jan 2015 23:24:12 But there must be a setting to turn it off. Now I remove all the icons from filesystem and config to make them disappear.
Why do you think it's duplicate? #1525 stays within current icon system. Emoji are a special block in Unicode.
+1 for this, the current texticons is somewhat broken.
Im not sure how implementing emoji via font is going to work across systems that may not have a specific font that supports this,
I had briefly discussed with pragma, another somewhat related font issue, a specific font set in a theme may not be available in another OS + add emoji support and this suddenly looking like a very hard job to implement.
Ones that obviously need a hardware change :)
still banging on this door? door was taken down and recycled so now its a brick wall.
So no typing :) to get a smiley - you'd have to paste an actual ☺ character in, or choose it from a menu?
Notice how the ☺ I pasted in isn't even recognizable in this font as a smiley - it could just as easily be a frownie or a "meh" face!
No, typing :) never gave me a graphical smiley. I'm saying I'd much rather have that than have to pick one from a menu. But the menu should be implemented as well, for emoji without simple text representations.
Inputting emoji is a task that should be left to the OS. Unfortunately only OS X lets users type emojis easily...
Does such a script exist? I don't know how to create them...
Not for that exactly but with a little imagination its possible to modify to use for these smileys.
https://gist.github.com/un1versal/12c102230d4c5774c10304527c642047
Oh, I see that emoji replacement was added recently after all! But there is one issue - emoji should only be replaced if they are "whole words". For instance, if I type >:D to get an evil grinning face, I instead get > followed by a regular grinning face, since the evil grinning face isn't supported, which is confusing. It would be better to not generate an emoji at all in that case!