bring back :cat2:

[Flet]

From @maxogden on April 29, 2015 20:29

when @flet switched to twemoji we got their crappy cat2 emoji

this is the true cat2 emoji:

Copied from original issue: moose-team/friends#52

[Flet]

From @beaugunderson on April 29, 2015 20:39

this has my unequivocal support :cat2: :100:

[Flet]

From @ngoldman on April 29, 2015 20:43

how do we ensure proper :cat2: tribute as well as emoji equality across platforms? #48

[Flet]

@maxogden I have offended your family, and I have offended a shaolin temple. Many apologies.

Something like wemoji may be a good alternative.

[Flet]

From @jden on April 30, 2015 17:14

:cat2: :cat2:

[Flet]

From @jden on April 30, 2015 17:17

@ngoldman perhaps some sort of feature-detection to see if emoji display properly, and then twemoji or similiar as a fallback?

[Flet]

From @ngoldman on April 30, 2015 17:42

can haz :cat2:? not sure how to feature detect for emoji support from w/in JS but I imagine it's possible

[Flet]

From @jden on April 30, 2015 18:3

rough idea: render raw unicode emoji off-screen, measure height and width of element

[Flet]

Relevant https://gist.github.com/mwunsch/4710561#file-emoji_image_replace-js-L71

[bcomnes]

IRCCloud handles the situation pretty well. Here is a bit on that: https://blog.irccloud.com/emoji/

[beaugunderson]

haha nice, they even take care not to emoji-ize IPv6 addresses

[ungoldman]

lol blogs about proper emoji handling

[junosuarez]

wait, IRC channels can have emoji as names? can #friends channels have that?

[Flet]

Someone was playing around with unicode names for channels last night :)

[bcomnes]

Only some servers on IRC seem to allow emoji channels #:cloud:

[bcomnes]

https://github.com/moose-team/friends/issues/103

[junosuarez]

Was there ever any resolution in fixing the lack of proper :cat2:?

[max-mapper]

i considered opening an issue on twitter/twemoji but haven't got the courage

[junosuarez]

I believe in you, catmapper