# What is this smilie? And how is it showing up here? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880 "2017-06-26T03:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/1 "2017-06-26T03:23:21Z")
[This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20303444&postcount=22) has a smilie that doesn’t appear on our list of SDMB-available smilies. How? > [@](#): > > I’m pretty pleased things worked out the way it did😂 Is essentially any smilie/emoji available for us to copy and paste into our posts now? Has it always been this way? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/2 "2017-06-26T03:24:24Z")
�� �� ���� ���� ������ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/3 "2017-06-26T03:25:46Z")
Ok, now those show up as question marks for me once submitted, even though when I pasted them, they showed up as the emoji. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/4 "2017-06-26T03:28:04Z")
😂😡 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/5 "2017-06-26T03:30:11Z")
💩😍 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/6 "2017-06-26T03:39:38Z")
How did you get it to work? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/7 "2017-06-26T03:44:49Z")
���� I’ll be danged. All I did was copy & paste **Happy Lendervedder’s** emoticons, and there they are. ETA: They C&P into Notepad as emoticons also, although without color. They C&P as ??? into a straight ASCII editor, though. ETA ETA: And when I resubmitted the post, they turned into ???, even if I C&P’d them again. (NB: I have no idea why, I’m just experimenting to see what happens. **HL** , where did you copy them from?) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/8 "2017-06-26T03:45:37Z")
I’m copying and pasting from [here](https://www.emojicopy.com/). Weird thing is I can get them to work, then if I go back in to edit the post and add more, they all end up showing up as question marks. �� ETA: Except that “thumbs-up” didn’t post. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/9 "2017-06-26T03:46:27Z")
Our standard smileys work by putting the code for an image on the page, and for a long time, that was basically the only way to do it. Nowadays, though, with everything using Unicode, there’s room for more characters than human languages could ever use, and so some of those characters, instead of being assigned to letters and the like, are assigned to assorted little pictures. And since everything uses Unicode, that means that you can use those emojis anywhere that you can use text of any sort. Which does not mean that they’ll always work. No font has _all_ of Unicode supported; there’s just too much of it, and it’s always being updated. So if you’re using a font that doesn’t contain certain characters, you won’t see them. This explains why there were some you saw when typing, but they didn’t show up in the actual post: The posts here use a different font than the text-entry box. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/10 "2017-06-26T03:46:35Z")
Its all just blocks and diamonds with question marks for me. Not that its a bad thing … ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/11 "2017-06-26T03:46:53Z")
🤖😺 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/12 "2017-06-26T03:47:48Z")
Huh. I’ll be damned. You deserve a 🍪 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/13 "2017-06-26T03:48:06Z")
🤖😺 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/14 "2017-06-26T03:53:16Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Huh. I’ll be damned. You deserve a 🍪 That’s why I always fall back on (_o_)/ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/15 "2017-06-26T03:54:00Z")
👁❤🍺 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/16 "2017-06-26T04:11:36Z")
Large strawberries and rainbows: 🍓🌈🌈🍓 Italicized large strawberries and rainbows: _🍓🌈🌈🍓_ Bold large strawberries and rainbows: **🍓🌈🌈🍓** Underlined large strawberries and rainbows: 🍓🌈🌈🍓 Small strawberries and rainbows: 🍓🌈🌈🍓 Very small strawberries and rainbows: [sup]🍓🌈🌈🍓[/sup] Avocado: 🥑 Really large bacon avocado burrito: [SIZE=“7”]🥓🥑🌯[/SIZE] Will wonders never cease? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/17 "2017-06-26T04:41:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Large strawberries and rainbows: > > 🍓🌈🌈🍓 > > Italicized large strawberries and rainbows: > > _🍓🌈🌈🍓_ > > Bold large strawberries and rainbows: > > **🍓🌈🌈🍓** > > Underlined large strawberries and rainbows: > > 🍓🌈🌈🍓 > > Small strawberries and rainbows: > > 🍓🌈🌈🍓 > > Very small strawberries and rainbows: > > [sup]🍓🌈🌈🍓[/sup] > > Avocado: > 🥑 > > Really large bacon avocado burrito: > > [SIZE=“7”]🥓🥑🌯[/SIZE] > > Will wonders never cease? Apparently. Usually somewhere in the neighborhood of “avocado”… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/18 "2017-06-26T04:51:03Z")
[del]Preview messes up Unicode characters on here. You preview, it looks right, then you post, and the characters get munged.[/del] �� Edit: Okay, that’s not it. But I do know that they sometimes get munged. Those ?s in the second post are all munged characters, Unicode 0xFFFD, which is basically the character for “invalid code.” Edit 2: It’s editing that breaks it. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/19 "2017-06-26T04:55:32Z")
> [@happy lendervedder](#): > > 😂😡 💩😍💩😍💩😍💩😍💩😍💩😍 Edited ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880/20 "2017-06-26T05:21:11Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > ������������������������ > > Edited Huh. Does it break now?. Yep, it broke when I edited. Maybe there’s also a browser issue. I’m using Chrome 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit. (I only have 3GB of memory, and the 32-bit version uses less memory. Anyone with 4GB or more was automatically updated to the 64-bit version.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-smilie-and-how-is-it-showing-up-here/789880.md?page=2)