Emojis can look bad on web pages AND cause low quality scores?! Maybe.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

&#128736; <----

If you see a hammer and scredriver above your browser setup lets you see emojis. If you see a square it does not. Chrome often doesn't, firefox almost always does... point is, don't use them on web pages and then go submit to adsense inclusion, or anything where a human is about to check out your site.

They look bad when they look square. Google raters and adsense approvers likely use chrome so if nothing else... check in chrome.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Go figure, this forum kills functionality of emojis entirely... but check if it renders of not in chrome before submiting for adsense inclusion, or anything else important. Better yet, include an image of the emoji fully rendered, not the emoji code itself.

[Dimitri]

Peace first, then ...

I cannot reproduce the problem you are mentioning above, however :

- be sure to use the correct charset , today, you should use utf-8,
- not all fonts carry emojis,
- Here you, have the list of official unicode emoji, do you see them in the "browser" column ? [unicode.org...]

[NickMNS]

I have struggled with this for a while with a web-app I created. Emoji's are dependent on the OS, Windows 7 does a really bad job showing them, Windows 10 is much better, Linux(Ubuntu) is great and mobile, Android and iOS, both work fine. Also note that the image displayed is not the same across OS's/browsers either (as shown in Dimitry's link), they are similar but not identical.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I just rechecked with the latest version of chrome freshly re-installed and &#128736; does not appear, a little empty square appears in its place... but it works in most every other OS... and as Nick pointed out it looks different in most.

I loaded the page via pagespeed to look at the image thru the pagespeed screenshot and it didn't appear there either. When I creat a post here it shows up as a hammer and screwdriver until I press submit...

Point is - if a Google Adsense approver or Search rater or potential buyer sees the ugly square variety... it could cost ya. While I love that they are much smaller in filesize cost than an image... they don't work universally. Use one as a logo or nav dressup at your own risk.

[lucy24]

The character in question exists in only one font in the current Mac OS. That’s risky at the best of times; you need to make sure the character is available in all operating systems likely to be used by your site users, which will vary depending on site. Option B is to add a font--stripped-down to only the required character(s), so the user isn’t obliged to request a multi-megabyte file just to see one character.

But seriously, WebmasterWorld. Constraining the site to charset 1252* was already silly eight or ten years ago when the site code was last overhauled; today it’s painfully archaic.


* Windows-Latin-1, a superset of ISO-Latin-1 or 8859-1. By convention, browsers are encouraged to interpret “Latin-1” as 1252, permitting certain extra characters such as “ ” ‘ ’ curly quotes, œ and so on.