Emoticons and such

[hibbing]

Howdy,
As usual, I'm here to post a dumb question. If I post and use emoticons will they be visible to everyone regardless of their devices/OS and mine?

[LearnedHand]

1. If you mean using phone emoji, yes they show up 😁

Like that one.

[usonian]

2. All unicode emoji show up on devices going some years back.

Titles even show them.

But some math characters don't render (as of last time I tried) and an arrow ( combination of - and > ) will make text disappear, as it's an HTML "comment that you can't see)

The one that gets to me is double quote plus )
It makes a smiley, but is very often used.

If you type it, you get a smiley: &quot
The code you need to type (or leave a space between the quote and paren, which causes line breaks at times) is



That's a screensnap, because when you type it and preview, IT GOES AWAY.

Don't you love computers? (web sites, actually)

I get inconsistent emoji keyboards between devices, so I just use a free app on each device to search and copy them so I can paste into these text boxes.

HTH

[hibbing]

3. Cool

This is on my lapper, I'll try on my other devices..peace!

[progree]

4. I typed in your code, and it displays the code. The trick is to embed a meaningless "[/b]" symbol after each "&"

That's a screensnap, because when you type it and preview, IT GOES AWAY.

Here it is as plain text, not a screen shot:

")

The invisible "[/b]" symbols stuck into it screws up the interpreter, and so it just leaves it as text, with the "[/b]" symbols invisible.

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A useful trick if one wants to display the URL of a graphics image without rendering the graphic.

With the embedded "[/b]" stuck in right after the "h" in http, it displays the URL of the graphic:

https://i.imgur.com/pW5emc4.png

Without the "[/b]" , it displays the image:


The "[/b]" symbol embedded screws up the URL so the interpreter doesn't try to interpret it as a URL.

I used the same trick, by the way, to show the "[/b]". Without the trick, the "[/b]" simply disappears