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Dani
Dani

Reputation: 1250

How Browsers deal with UTF8MB4

I'm working on my own version of tweetdeck with the twitter API.

EVERYTHING IS WORKING :), If pull the results directly from twitter I get to see those nice iphone UTF8MB4 smileys in OSX Safari browser. I even got mySQL server to support UTF8MB4.

Alas, it ONLY works in OSX Safari, Chrome in OSX doesn't work, and nothing in windows does.

instead i Get white boxs. here are a few, I wonder how they look to you! 🎃🎃💿📱

Anyway, my question is, would it be possible to write a javascript based plugin for chrome that detects UTF8MB4 characters and replaces them with image icons? Even though a character isn't found and the question box is shown, is chromes engine recognizing the character discretely?

I really don't know how Chrome or Windows handles UTF8MB4. Linux seems to like it, but I'm always accessing it through a OSX SSH session so maybe it's just that.

Thanks for he help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1282

Answers (1)

Dani
Dani

Reputation: 1250

someone beat me to the punch! I found a chrome extension that does exactually what I was thinking, it converts the UTF8MB4 characters with small .gif images that represent the iOS display of said characters. So this confirms that chrome does indeed recognize UTF8MB4 characters, it just doesn't have native display support for them.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for-google/cahedbegdkagmcjfolhdlechbkeaieki/related?hl=en-GB

I supposed anyone could write their own version of this extension, but no reason to reinvent the wheel

Upvotes: 1

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