The discussion revolves around adding Unicode 9 emojis to Discourse, with users expressing interest in features like the :shrug: emoji and skin tone support. dfabulich highlights the availability of new emojis in Unicode 9 and suggests Discourse should adopt them. elijah notes that Discourse 1.8 is expected to include Unicode updates, though the current emoji set is still based on Unicode v3. sam confirms plans to upgrade emojis, emphasizing skin tone support as a priority, and suggests emulating Twitter’s emoji selector. While the update won’t be in the upcoming release, it is likely to be included in the next one.
Unicode 9 added a :shrug: emoji which I’d love to use right about now. http://emojipedia.org/shrug/ indicates that it’s available in all five of the standard sets available from Discourse (Apple, Google, Twitter, Emojione, Microsoft/Win10).
I’d love to see Discourse adopt all of the new stuff in Unicode 9.
For now, I’ll just have to copy and paste that katakana thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
P.S. Note that you can’t paste in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ directly except in code blocks; you have to escape the backslash with ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Discourse 1.8 is supposed to include newer Unicode stuff, see #releases
Skin tone support for emoji
The current emoji set is the Unicode v3 release. Shrug is v4. I expect v4 will be part of the work done in Discourse 1.8, but I’m just an observer here.
Some previous discussion that might be interesting:
