# Emoji in tag names

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-in-tag-names/44555>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** emoji, tags\
**Created:** [20.Май.2016 10:37:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-in-tag-names/44555 "2016-05-20T10:37:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)\
**Post date:** [19.Апрель.2017 15:27:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-in-tag-names/44555/14 "2017-04-19T15:27:08Z")

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Since we already supporting semicolon `:` in tag names I am able to create a new tag named `:thinking:` which is equal to 🤔 emoji. Then I explored and found that emoji support in tags is easily doable by editing single line of code. And it is just working on my localhost as below

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/2/42267c9ce5a24b35dbe2fb71f871245fe478a410.png)

If you are welcome this in core then I will create PR. Else I can share it as custom theme.

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