Include the new emojis from Microsoft and Google as an option in Discourse

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The discussion revolves around a feature request to include the new emojis from Microsoft and Google in Discourse. anon73664359 notes that both companies have announced overhauls of their emoji designs, with Google’s new emojis appearing in Android 12 and Microsoft’s in Windows 11. They ask if Discourse can incorporate these updated emojis, referencing the platform’s ability to customize emoji appearance during setup. Falco clarifies that Discourse updates emojis when they are added to the Unicode Consortium database, which is the standard for emoji support. anon73664359 acknowledges this information, and Decorbuz questions whether Microsoft’s new emojis are already available in the Unicode database.

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Both Microsoft and Google have recently announced that they’ll be overhauling the way their emojis look. In the case of Google, their new emojis will first begin appearing in Android 12. As for Microsoft, their new emojis will first begin appearing in Windows 11 (and possibly Windows 10 too, but I can’t confirm that at this time). Microsoft’s new emojis will also begin appearing in their productivity suite, but that isn’t relevant to my feature request.

With that out of the way, I would like to see the overhauled emojis be implemented into Discourse. I wanted to bring this up because I know for a fact you can change the way emojis look on your forum when first setting up Discourse.

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We update our emojis periodically as soon as they are available in the unicode consortium database. Those will be no different.

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Ah, okay. I didn’t know that. Thanks for the information!

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Admittedly, this is not my field of expertise, but does this mean that Microsoft’s new emojis are now available in the database you were referring to? :thinking: