Strip Emoji Code from page title discussion revolves around improving page titles in search results and tabs. ColdSun proposed stripping emojis from page titles in the HTML header, citing cleaner tabs and more helpful search titles. However, codinghorror pointed out that browsers can display Unicode emojis in page titles.
The issue remains with the :smile: version of emojis, but codinghorror revealed that the problem has already been fixed, and Unicode emojis are now used in topic titles, which browsers display correctly. EddieOne suggested having the option to strip emojis from titles, in addition to using Unicode emojis by default.
In the sake of cleaner tabs and more helpful search titles via Google (etc), I would recommend stripping emoji from the page title in the html header.
Obviously it can’t display the emoji which would be most desirable, and keeping it as is offers relatively little value for the amount of characters the emoji require (typically) take up in the tab/search result.
The other option would be strip it from the topic title as a whole but that would be far less of an ideal situation as emoji in titles can be a great way to provide meta data about what the topic might be about (depending on the emojis provided/utilized)
To be honest, I forgot to check if the Unicode versions would. That would still leave the issue of the :smile: version.
I don’t foresee it happening often on most sites, but depending on the type of community culture developed, it could become quite a problem on a few sites.
isn’t going to display but the Unicode version should.