Update the Emoji set, add the skin tone modifier feature

[wp9015362]

@zhukov :

The Emoji set in Webogram is now outdated, see:

http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-2015-emoji-changelog-ios-os-x

Could you please update the Emoji set to the latest version and could you please add the skin tone modifier feature to the Webogram Emoji drawer?

Also submitted for:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/639 https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/986

Regards

[wp9015362]

PS:

And please also add the new Emoji categories to the Webogram Emoji drawer, which are also described over there:

http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-2015-emoji-changelog-ios-os-x

Prepare to re-learn the position of your favorite emojis, as they have all changed. New categories have been introduced, and emojis have been re-arranged within the existing categories as well.

The new categories are:

😃 People 🌸 Nature 🍔 Food & Drink 🎉 Celebration 🏃 Activity 🌇 Travel & Places 🔣 Objects & Symbols

Regards

[sergioad]

Or maybe can you use the Twitter emojis?

[wp9015362]

@zhukov :

WhatsApp (incl. WhatsApp Web) uses the updated set now and even has the the skin tone modifier feature for it's built-in Emoji drawer now, see the following article and screenshots for example:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/06/30/live-long-and-prosper-whatsapp-adds-skin-tone-emojis-and-spock-vulcan-salute-on-android/

Will Webogram also get it anytime soon?

Regards

[mwld]

FYI: More emojis have recently been added with iOS 9.1 update: http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-9-1-emoji-changelog/

[stefan-schweiger]

Also WhatsApp has already integrated those. I know only the sky is the limit with stickers, but it would be nice to have the new Emojis and not be behind WhatsApp on this one.

[bluezed]

Looks like the Telegram Android App supports the new Emojis now too:

And this is how it looks in the Webogram:

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Is there something planned about this?

[theus]

Telegram Desktop has added all emojis in an update last week

[colltoaction]

Maybe we can take advantage of the work done in the mobile app? e.g.: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/496c336d5f80947ebce64087cc9740b3d28ee99d/TMessagesProj/src/main/java/org/telegram/messenger/EmojiData.java

[jusore]

Will be this bug fixed this year?

[Akronix]

I'm trying to help with this to at least add the new emojis that are in every official telegram client except for webogram, but I can't find where exactly the images are loaded from. Could you please give us a clue @zhukov?

[gorghino]

Nearly April 2017. Another bug birthday :(

[Ryuno-Ki]

Patches welcome? Look at the contributors graph! The number is quite low!

[bluezed]

Looks like something has changed, maybe with the Telegram API? I suddenly see Emojis that weren't supported by webogram though they look slightly different to the "normal" emojis.

See here:

And this is how the HTML looks:

Only thing missing now is the ability to actively use those emojis in webogram, not just display them ;)

[colltoaction]

It's probably the browser's native support for emojis.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017, 22:41 bluezed.apps notifications@github.com wrote:

Looks like something has changed, maybe with the Telegram API? I suddenly see Emojis that weren't supported by webogram though they look slightly different to the "normal" emojis.

See here: [image: Emoji screenshot] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c31633eb515136eb65de9ac74a8285df6c458b95/68747470733a2f2f696d6167652e6962622e636f2f6446387451612f456d6f6a6973312e706e67

And this is how the HTML looks: [image: Source screenshot] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1118c1810254575488979532a4fbf02797f8209f/68747470733a2f2f696d6167652e6962622e636f2f6e3754684a762f456d6f6a6973322e706e67

Only thing missing now is the ability to actively use those emojis in webogram, not just display them ;)

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[stek29]

@bluezed Webogram thinks that those symbols aren't emoji and doesn't replace them, so system can render them. It's easy to notice how different they are.

(btw, what is that screenshot from? What browser does allow to theme devtools?)

[bluezed]

Thanks for the info.

That's Firefox 52.0.2 (32bit). Not changed any themes though.

Am 01.04.2017 4:26 vorm. schrieb "Viktor Oreshkin" <notifications@github.com

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@bluezed https://github.com/bluezed Webogram thinks that those symbols aren't emoji and doesn't replace them, so system can render them. It's easy to notice how different they are.

(btw, what is that screenshot from? What browser does allow to theme devtools?)

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[Ryuno-Ki]

Firefox does allow theming the developer tools since a while. The latest theme was Firebug-like.

[darkshades42]

please implement this!

[ingria]

Bump. There are a lot of missing emojis.

Maybe this project can help with the actual emoji list: https://github.com/emojione/emojione/blob/master/emoji.json

[donqq]

it has been so long hope the emojis will be updated in the desktop version soon.

[stek29]

@stormyqq emoji in TDesktop were updated months ago.

[donqq]

I am not sure it's updated or not, but the current emojis ain't that good looking. I prefer if it's something like this https://emoji.codes/ can't we at least replace the existing emojis in the telegram?

[stefan-schweiger]

Replacing them in their entirety is just as tedious as just getting the new ones to work, which already no one seems to cares about doing... Also I'm not a fan of using another emoji style because it makes them inconsistent to other systems (emoji one is not bad, but still sometimes you don't convey the same meaning when they look different)

[donqq]

well I care about. the existing emojis are so small, and old looking, I like how telegram has this feature which allows us to create our own stickers, I guess if they allow to create our own emojis like that, then that would be great for everyone.

[stefan-schweiger]

@stormyqq good for you, if you care enough implement it yourself. it's an open source project after all. what I meant no one of the active development team seems to care to do the work, so either change it yourself, live with the status quo or just use the desktop app ;)

[donqq]

Now you sound rude here, isn't this section for requesting new features? why you argue with people who request new features? I don't want to argue with anyone, if they don't like they don't have to implement it.

[stefan-schweiger]

@stormyqq look this issue is open for over two years now, the core team clearly isn't going to fix it, thats all I'm saying. So as long as someone doesn't decide to do it him/herself don't expect it to change anytime soon.

[Ryuno-Ki]

The core team consusts of 1 person. I can imagine, emoji aren't prio 1.

Contributions welcome :)

[stek29]

@Ryuno-Ki And that person is doing a lot of other stuff in Telegram :)

[jvschiavo]

Does anyone know to do it? I don't know how to do that kind of thing. But I really wanted to help. :(

[jvschiavo]

Hey @stek29, could you work into this? I really want to help but I need to be guided since I don't know about this. =(

[stek29]

@jvschiavo I'd love to help, but I have no idea about how exactly tgweb works with emojis. I'd suggest you to port emojione libs and remove webogram's stuff tho.

[jvschiavo]

@stek29 you should forget emojione, they are not free anymore.

[stek29]

@jvschiavo Their JS Library is. I'm not talking about porting emojione emoji, I suggest to port emojione JS library.

[Discostu36]

Just wanted to bump this because Apple released new Emojis with iOS 11.1 on October 31st. The number of Emojis that Telegram Web does not support is growing and growing. This is really an important feature! How can I react adequately to messages if I can't see 1/3 of the emojis they contain?

[gorghino]

I stopped using Telegram Web because of this bug. Telegram desktop client is also waiting for new Emojis

[Ryuno-Ki]

Use emoticons :|

[gorghino]

Welcome to 1980

[stek29]

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[ingria]

:man_facepalming:

[Ryuno-Ki]

Emojis are inherently flawed. I was serious regarding the emoticons. No argue on skin colour and so on ;-)

[ingria]

Well, we all* live in Unicode era, and emojis are part of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

*excluding Google, according to your screenshot

[jvschiavo]

I have no problems on a recent Android phone. :)

[Ryuno-Ki]

Fairphone 2 without Google here. Maybe I am missing some fonts. However, this could happen to anybody, so I would recommend against Emojis. Maybe we can find common ground in having them written as :thumbs_up: and replaced by the emoji if supported (however support would be determined).

[ingria]

Actually, this is the main reason why emoji support has to be polyfilled in Telegram Web.

BTW, :shortcuts: support is already implemented in all Telegram apps.

[doktormerlin]

2018 now and still iOS 9 emojis are used, without skin tone modifier. I think the emoji set should be updated at least, skin tone modifier being no priority here.

[ingria]

Emojis are now hosted on telegram.org. No need to look for the lib:

https://telegram.org/img/emoji/32/F09F948D.png https://telegram.org/img/emoji/32/F09F9A80.png https://telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F9281E2808DE29982.png

[Carighan]

Another quarter has passed with no update. I wanted to add that if it is a technical limitation which makes it difficult to use the new iOS emoji set, maybe switching to google's emoji or EmojiOne could alleviate it? Whatever can be updated the fastest.

[ingria]

Well, I've managed to implement the full emoji support in my fork. The only problem is that I couldn't find the authentic Apple emoji font/images/sprites/whatever, so I had to use Emojione (which, I suppose, is unsuitable for the official Telegram Web app).

So, if anyone helps me to find an up-to-date Apple emoji images, I can PR to this repo.

New "People" emojis:	New "Food" emojis:

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Also I suggest changing the emoji sizes from various across the app to fixed 20x20px. This will: 1) Reduce the size of the the sprite 2) Improve performance (background-image resizing is very resource consuming) 3) Look awesome (Telegram Desktop uses only 20x20px emojis).