[Feature Request] Add a custom emoji 🍎 as marker icon - Githubissues

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[Feature Request] Add a custom emoji 🍎 as marker icon #1997

Closed Binnette closed 3 months ago

Binnette commented 3 months ago

Hi,

For marker icon, is it possible to add a filed for "custom emoji", that allow user to set a custom emoji like: 🐸, 🍒, 🅿, etc.

pietervdvn commented 3 months ago

That is a funny idea. I coded this up, but keep in mind that this should not be used extensively, for a few reasons:

Emoji's are rendered by the Operating System. This means that it will look different depending if the user is using iOs, Android, Linux or Windows. This website lists different designs. Furthermore, those designs evolved over time, which sometimes even changes the meaning of the emoji
It is hard to style. When using it in a different context, it might give wrong results, as here:

In other words: I don't mind emoji's being used in an unofficial themes, but official MapComplete themes should not have emojis.