# Emojis update

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-update/355624
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** emoji
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-update/355624 "2025-03-04T10:36:43Z")
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### Author: ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-update/355624/9 "2025-03-04T16:42:43Z")

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> [@Shauny](#):
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> Why do we need to use images for emoji anyway, can’t we just use the symbols? I’d prefer if they showed in everyone’s native style on their OS.

It’s not that simple for two reasons:

- different platforms support new released emojis at different speed, so you could have user A on platform 1, creating a post using an emoji available on this platform, which will then be seen by user B on platform 2 which doesn’t support yet the latest emojis released few weeks ago =\> tofu box (in the world of fonts, “tofu” is a blank rectangular box that appears when a character cannot be displayed).
- custom emojis. Discourse supports custom emojis which are not mapped to a character and are just images.

> [@Canapin](#):
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> Do we need to do anything?

No unless you want to change it

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