Emoji in vb5!

[saiff]

Is there a way to show smiles naturally in the forum? Currently appear as question marks, or do not appear, the same problem is also present in the application Is there a solution to the problem?

[LockedOnLaw]

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-17189

[Wayne Luke]

If your vBulletin 5 site is using the UTF8MB4 character set and a corresponding collation, then it will automatically support the majority of the Emoji standard.

[saiff]

I use UTF-8

[Wayne Luke]

UTF8MB4? That is the required character set on the database if you want to support these emoji. UTF-8 is three bytes per character. You need at least four bytes per character for the emoji standard. This is handled with UTF8MB4. The MB4 means MultiByte 4. And yes, this means you database size can grow by as much as 1/3 larger.

[Rob-H]

All of my smilies are showing up as :_: instead of the smilie graphic
vB 5.6.8
Using UTF8MB4_unicode_ci

[Wayne Luke]

Smilies or Emoji? These are two different but similar functions…

Smilies - This is an old function where vBulletin replaces strings of text with images stored on the server. Smilies will appear the same on all devices. This is backwards compatible with vBulletin 3 and 4. Smilies should really be considered deprecated (or obsolete) but we don't have plans to remove this feature.

Emoji - These are UTF-8 characters where the operating system and/or browser replaces font characters with images stored on the device. Each vendor (for example Apple, Google, and Microsoft) is responsible for providing the images and does not necessarily support all 4,000+ Emoji.

The solution to "smilies not appearing" depends on the specific system since you posted in a topic dedicated to Emoji.