Enabling UTF-8 support (and thus standard emoji)

[Morgon]

It's been decades(!) since I've managed vBulletin, so apologies if I get something wrong, but there should be a way to handle basic emoji without outright upgrading vBulletin (though I will point out that vB is now on version 6...)

Anyway, it would require someone on the infrastructure team changing the database tables to "UTF8MB4" (to store unicode in posts properly), and change the language in Admin Control Panel to UTF-8 (so vB itself displays it properly).

Critical? Certainly not, but sometimes you just need to infer tone via pictures. �� (Which actually worked at first. But when I edited it with ��, they both broke)

[apptest]

Originally Posted by Morgon

It's been decades(!) since I've managed vBulletin, so apologies if I get something wrong, but there should be a way to handle basic emoji without outright upgrading vBulletin (though I will point out that vB is now on version 6...)

Anyway, it would require someone on the infrastructure team changing the database tables to "UTF8MB4" (to store unicode in posts properly), and change the language in Admin Control Panel to UTF-8 (so vB itself displays it properly).

Critical? Certainly not, but sometimes you just need to infer tone via pictures. �� (Which actually worked at first. But when I edited it with ��, they both broke)

They should be working for the most part but clearly not for you. How are you trying to enter emojis? iPhone app, iPhone web browser, chrome desktop, chrome mobile, safari desktop, safari mobile, etc… ?

[Morgon]

Originally Posted by apptest

They should be working for the most part but clearly not for you. How are you trying to enter emojis? iPhone app, iPhone web browser, chrome desktop, chrome mobile, safari desktop, safari mobile, etc… ?

Desktop browser (Brave (Chrome-ish) on macOS to be precise). On Mac, there's the 'Character Viewer' that allows users to directly enter in any character, which makes it super-easy to select Emoji.

In my last post, I added 😆 which seemed to work on initial message, but not when I edited.

[Morgon]

(And true to form, it remained. If I edit the message, it'll get clobbered)

[apptest]

test ��
clobbering time!

EDIT: Nice bug find, you are right, it's happening on desktop only when editing, but initial posts are fine. I will look into this more in the coming days