Today I read a interesting article that make the unicode emojis as icon on a web page.

See the Pen Emojis as Icons by Preethi (@rpsthecoder) on CodePen.

It is cool, and I realized that now emojis are well-supported in the internet.

What’s Emojis

Emojis are unicode text that can show as image in the text message, web on the computer, it created from Japan.

UTF-8,UTF-16…

As to web, mostly it is utf-8 encoding, so recall what’s the difference of UTF-8(UTF-16…) from UNICODE?

Simply to say, UTF-16 and UTF-8 are both encodings of Unicode. They are both Unicode; one is not more Unicode than the other.UTF-8 is able to use 4 bytes to represents all the UNICODE while UTF-16 also need 4 bytes to represents all UNICODE.

Use Emojis

On windows, windows + . is the shortcut of show emojis panel. On MAC,Command + Control + Spacebar will show the emojis panel.

Emojis Resource

Unicode office site - all emojis list Search Emojis

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