allow unicode emojis to be posted in comments

Seth_Zaw

I think Scratch is UTF-16, which means that characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane are encoded with two characters, called a surrogate pair. Surrogate pair characters are untypeable and appear as nothing. I tried to put an emoji in the

length of ()

block and it reported 2. So these 2 characters are surrogates. Since some emojis are on the BMP, it's possible that only some emojis work.

Last edited by Seth_Zaw (Jan. 22, 2021 20:01:17)

lovecodeabc

Seth_Zaw wrote:
I think Scratch is UTF-16, which means that characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane are encoded with two characters, called a surrogate pair. Surrogate pair characters are untypeable and appear as nothing. I tried to put an emoji in the
length of ()
block and it reported 2. So these 2 characters are surrogates. Since some emojis are on the BMP, it's possible that only some emojis work.

trust me i like avaition

Last edited by lovecodeabc (Jan. 26, 2021 15:48:14)

gosoccerboy5

They be digging deep in the page source

lovecodeabc

bump

lovecodeabc

lovecodeabc wrote:
bump

831985

I think that instead of doing emojis but blocking a ton, we should have a bar of emojis that are appropriate then if you click it it puts the emoji and all are appropriate

yay

forever
broadcast [ emoji bar]
end

yay

show list [ of emojis that are allowed ]

831985

…if that is possible.

if <emoji bar is possible> then
broadcast [ emoji bar forever]
end

-1z

u270e

wait it doesn't work

Last edited by -1z (Feb. 18, 2021 22:12:48)

samq64

Support! Scratch already supports at least some emojis like ❌ and ✔, so why not support all (or at least most) emojis? This would also mean less people would suggest random emojis to be added as special Scartch emojis..

Last edited by samq64 (June 26, 2021 19:45:14)

samq64

Duplicate: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/174932/

-Valtren-

samq64 wrote:
Duplicate: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/174932/

1. that's implemented
2. these are for emojis, that's for unicode.

MisterMagic16

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1122716698/

BigNate469

MisterMagic16 wrote:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1122716698/

All of those are:
1. Able to be represented as text (not an image), depending on system settings and how it's represented
2. In the Basic Multilingual Plane

This suggestion is about adding Unicode-defined emojis, which are mostly outside the BMP.

MisterMagic16

BigNate469 wrote:
MisterMagic16 wrote:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1122716698/
All of those are:
1. Able to be represented as text (not an image), depending on system settings and how it's represented
2. In the Basic Multilingual Plane

This suggestion is about adding Unicode-defined emojis, which are mostly outside the BMP.

Yeah, ik. But Scratch doesn't rly have enough funding to do that quickly. Hopefully Scratch 4.0 will do it (and quick)

HighlaneGamingStudio

MisterMagic16 wrote:
Yeah, ik. But Scratch doesn't rly have enough funding to do that quickly. Hopefully Scratch 4.0 will do it (and quick)

If I have this right, once this is decided, only one person has to go in and change the code in one document.

elephantlover3927

I think I know why Scratch doesn’t allow that, it’s because some scratchers may bully others (example: this is you —> *insert poop emoji here*) that would break the community guidelines so probably that’s why

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