# Emoji and Discourse

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**Created:** [December 31, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-and-discourse/37292 "2015-12-31T01:21:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-and-discourse/37292/12 "2016-03-07T21:00:04Z")

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Oh neat! That repo wasn’t on my radar. If you want to see the tools we used to extract the emojis they’re all in this repo:

> **[GitHub - discourse/discourse-emoji-extractor: Tools for extracting emoji sets](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-emoji-extractor)**
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> Tools for extracting emoji sets

In order to merge them into discourse we need the emojis

1. Present in _all_ 4 sets.
2. Renamed to the emoji.json name
3. Minified using [zopflipng](https://github.com/google/zopfli)

Then they can be put into a PR after they are:

1. copied into the discourse repo
2. updated emoji.json in our repo with what is present
3. Increment emoji version

(It’s a lot of work but all the tools are there)

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