# Strange behaviour of emoticons in character count

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Agosto 19, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049 "2014-08-19T13:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [Agosto 19, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049/3 "2014-08-19T14:14:56Z")

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> [@TechnoBear](#):
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> I threw in a smilie and found that apparently counts for at least six characters, as you can see.

I don’t think this is a bug. 😄 has 7 characters: `:smile:`

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