Simple rendering engine to allow bold / italic / smiley in forum posts using unicode

[serversideapps]

https://fbserv.herokuapp.com/smileyeditor.html

[thomas-daniels]

tbh if we're going for formatting in forum posts, I'd rather have Markdown than BBCode...

[serversideapps]

The point is I don't have access to the server. Markdown is a server thing. For unicode I only need an external editor and I can post nicely formatted text using existing facilities.

This idea has definite positive feedback with members:

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/insert-bold--italic--smiley-to-your-forum-posts

It is up to the site whether to address an existing need or leave this to user creativity. I just wanted to convey this existing interest to the developers.

[niklasf]

Emojis are fine, but abusing unicode characters is a terrible way to do text formatting.

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[hb20007]

Related: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/issues/8328