emoticons

I often forget about this little detail when posting here. I sometimes do mean to use an emoji, other times I just want an emoticon instead. But then, for some reason, the system just converts it to an emoji without even telling me, so I end up accidentally typing an emoji, and have to edit my...

Hi, I am wondering how I would go about getting suppot for colored emojis in GTK+ applications? I have installed a colored emoji font (https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/twemoji-color-font-ttf/) and done the fontconfig configuration. Colored emojis work fine in Firefox but in GTK+...

You know those glyphs everybody uses nowadays, those cell phone characters like smiley faces, hearts, houses and such? Like, there's useless ones, and I generally prefer ASCII smileys myself, but some of them are genuinely useful, like the cell phone icon, and the envelope glyph that I use in...