Emoji

Emojis are graphical images of faces and things, used to express ideas, concepts and emotions in communications messages. Here are some examples.

😀 = grinning face
🤣 = rolling on the floor laughing

Emojis are defined in the unicode text standard. Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Here is a chart of all unicode emojis [1]. Visit Unicode.org[2] for more information.

When entered into the comm window, emojis change the facial expression of an avatar. Refer to the visage topic for more information.

Tags can be used to express an emoji, without having to enter the actual emoji. For example, the tag for the grinning face emoji is :grinning face: If you use the emoji a lot, you might change the tag to :grin: to save some typing, or even :D:, similar to the emote. The bracketing colons are not required but they help distinguish emoji tags from other combinations of characters that could be entered.

Using tags you can type

I'm happy. :grin:

and the communications channel will convert the tag into

I'm happy. 😀

The comm window provides access to a window for selecting from the Unicode emojis. The visage and tag associated with different emojis can be configured on that window.

Emoji Translation

There are thousands of different emojis. They may be unfamiliar or hard to distinguish when displayed as tiny characters in the communications window. Right click any message in the window for a menu; choose the Translate Emojis option to see a translation of the message, with emojis converted into tags.

Doing so on the message

Too funny. 🤣

would produce the output

Too funny. :rolling on the floor laughing:

The tags in the translation are the ones configured on the recipient's computer, which could lead to misunderstandings. The sender's tag might have a different meaning from the recipient's tag.