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The Emoji set in Webogram is now outdated, see: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:

telegramdesktop/tdesktop#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.

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017, 22:41 bluezed.apps ***@***.***> 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 ;) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#760 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABeg9MTSqe1dfBaAbwQ63d_eYXya6f6Qks5rrJIUgaJpZM4D8yY3> .

[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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[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.

[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).

[magicgoose]

I stopped using Telegram Web because of this bug

This is hilarious. Emoji themselves are a bug; they should not have been allowed into Unicode.

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text

The fact that some guys hijacked the standard doesn't mean everybody has to support these bogus additions. The best that can be done is to treat the emoji characters as unassigned code points (that is, ignore their existence). But since this is a web application, it's up to the browser. Ideally webogram should simply assume that the browser will correctly render Unicode strings and not try fixing any issues that a browser could have, or it would be a crutch (костыль).

[ingria]

Emojis are ideograms. Meaning that they are as much bogus additions to Unicode, as chinese hieroglyphs or any other logogram (not bogus at all).

[Carighan]

@ingria : Emojione seems more sensible to me anyhow, Telegram is not just an iOS/OSX client.

[stek29]

@Carighan Exactly: Telegram is not just a web client, and that's why it can't use different emoji set.

@ingria AFAIK Telegram actually pays apple licensing fees for emoji, so I'm not sure if PR could be accepted. Also, You can use https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/Telegram/Resources/art/emoji_250x.webp (which is somewhat outdated too, I think), or probably pull out resources from Android app.

[ingria]

I have a script that creates a sprites with any emoji images and generates a JS/SCSS code. It doesn't care what images to use — Apple's, Emojione's or whatever. So I'm ready to PR any moment, as soon as I have full emoji set (and info about licensing if appropriate).

@Carighan yeah, I agree. I also like their style more than Apple's. But Telegram team aims to consistency across the clients and OSes, so they (most likely) won't accept anything except Apple emojis 🤷‍♂️

[StefanBrand]

@ingria Thanks a lot! I get that https://botcontrol.ru/web is possible only because Telegram's API is open per se, but the official Telegram Web App could do better in regards to emojis.

[flying-sheep]

WhatsApp semi-recently introduced an emoji set that’s similar to Apple’s, but not a copy, and with less of that hideous gloss.

Maybe Telegram could investigate if those are available without fees.

But anyway, the webogram emoji picker is hilariously outdated, and the only thing uglier than Apple emoji is the inconsistency of seeing Apple emoji mixed with my system font’s emoji (when my conversation partner uses a newer one not available in webogram)

[ror3d]

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).

@ingria Maybe you can do a PR of this and then find out the correct emoji set on its comments and update? This situation is starting to get a bit ridiculous.

[ingria]

No point to make a PR because this project is dead. The new one is being developed here, (demo).

[ror3d]

Oh okay, I wasn't aware of that. I see it's still under development and lacks a lot of functionality though. Could you please link to the repo where the fork I mentioned earlier was? The link doesn't seem to be working right now. Thanks so much.

[LuisMayo]

That "new one" is not official.
If telegram has an oficial client, which is the one most people are going to use, we should try to fix it

He seems to have deleted his fork?

[StefanBrand]

If telegram has an oficial client, which is the one most people are going to use, we should try to fix it

Also, https://botcontrol.ru/web is blocked on my university (Vienna)... 🙄 I have to use the official webogram...

Edit: Ok, I see that the domain of @ingria's fork is https://web.tlgrm.eu now. I'll check that out.
Edit2: web.tlgrm.eu works at University of Vienna. 😉

[Carighan]

Edit: Ok, I see that the domain of @ingria's fork is https://web.tlgrm.eu now. I'll check that out.
Edit2: web.tlgrm.eu works at University of Vienna. 😉

Is that actually official? Because the official page links to the old webogram.

[StefanBrand]

No, it's not official. But since webogram is open source and the "official" webogram hasn't updated the emoji set, I don't see a problem in using a fork.

[flying-sheep]

Where’s the code for the fork? @ingria?

[KevDoy]

Any movement on this?

[ricardofiorani]

Any update on this ?