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 emojis from other combinations of characters that could be entered.

The communications channel window provides access to a selection of emojis. The visage and tag associated with different emojis can be configured there.