What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

There's a declined request to support emoji characters directly in articles. Actually, I'm assuming that the internal rule is to forbid anything that would require surrogates to represent in UTF-16, i.e., anything outside the BMP. This means no emoji, sure, but it also means that I can't do this (faked using Inspect Element):

Which is annoying, because it was (marginally) important that these were tally marks. I wanted to work around this by using CSS:

.tally5::after {
 content: "\01D378";
}

And putting that in as something like:

[section:tally5]Days since last raid: [/section]

...but then I discovered that we can't put quotes in our CSS.   If allowing non-BMP characters in articles is something that would be allowed but for technical constraints, then could we please have some way to encode them using their Unicode code points? There's some cool stuff outside the BMP... Some suggestions for workarounds:

• Instead of rejecting the article content whenever it sees a non-BMP code point, maybe have the client-side portion only reject completely invalid text (i.e., unpaired surrogates, assuming UTF-16), and then replace any correctly paired surrogates with internal tags like [wa_internal_codepoint:U+1D378]?
• [char:U+1D378] or similar
• Allow quotes in CSS under a small number of whitelisted circumstances, such as "content" properties

 

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Authors (who are willing to get a bit weird with it) can use more characters when crafting their articles, including some characters used in uncommon / "dead" writing systems that someone might want to use in creating a world with an authentic "ancient" feel to it.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

• Emoji, though that's probably the one I care the least about, personally
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• Musical Symbols
• SignWriting characters used for sign language
• These nifty little arrows
• Chess Symbols
• Mahjong, Dominoes, and Playing Cards

Follow up

• +100

  by JetpackMonkey
  on 2022-05-31 09:21

• +300

  by PrincessHoneytea
  on 2022-05-21 17:45

• +100

  by NiahNiah
  on 2022-05-20 16:22

  ℡ ℬ ⅀ ↈ ♫ ♪ ♯ ☼ ☺ ⸎ ⸿ ﮛ ⸾ Ɀ ⁂ ※ ᴥ ۩ ۞ ۝֎ Ѭ Ѩ Ϟ ͽ   You can already, to an extent. Your computer should have something called Character Map in your start menu, and you can copy all kinds of characters and put them straight into text boxes of many sorts. Even musical notes.   That being said, I am upvoting this because character map, to my knowledge, doesn't have hieroglyphs or alchemical symbols. So... Those are cool.

• +300

  by ano19920
  on 2022-05-17 23:18

• +300

  by SpidersFace
  on 2022-05-17 18:09

• +300

  by Scyoni
  on 2022-05-16 20:24

• +100

  by blurrito
  on 2022-05-16 13:27

• +300

  by restlessGalaxy
  on 2022-05-16 03:49

• +100

  by KajetanWrites
  on 2022-05-15 11:11

• +100

  by A Beloved Bananafolk
  on 2022-05-13 11:48

• +300

  by Sandwichh
  on 2022-05-13 07:06

  Great idea, but I had to read into your article to notice that you actually had a point. When you wrote "EMOJI" all I could see were the FacebookEMOJI style things, but hieroglyphs, musical symbols and other stuff would be a very nice detail on some articles.

• +10

  by PrincessESH
  on 2022-05-12 03:02

• +10

  by tjtrewin
  on 2022-05-11 21:54

• +100

  by DMFW
  on 2022-05-11 10:11

• +100

  by ddaniel
  on 2022-05-11 08:23

• +20

  by A Revolutionary Devil
  on 2022-05-11 05:58

• +300

  by AuraGuard
  on 2022-05-10 18:39

  This would be wonderful~ Especially as I occasionally do some really funky stuff with my work.   And hey, it'd allow folks to host sheet music on WA.

• +300

  by DarthMediocritus
  on 2022-05-10 18:35

• +300

  by skidznet
  on 2022-05-10 13:47