emoticons

I want to make a chat application where the emoticons are necessary. I was trying to write my own TextBox to handle some unicode caracters and replace them with smiles and emoticons, but that was a hard work to do and I encountered many problems. Then I tried to make a custom font that will have emoticons in it but I found that a font is made in black and white and cannot be colored. I tried then to use different EditFields so when I find a Bitmap I draw it and start a different EditField but that didnt work for several lines and selection problems occured. The best way was to write my own

We are working on a project where we want users to be able to use both emoji syntax (like :smile: , :heart: , :confused: , :stuck_out_tongue: ) as well as normal emoticons (like :) , <3 , :/ , :p ) I'm having trouble with the emoticon syntax because sometimes those character sequences will occur in: normal strings or URL's - http :/ /example.com within the emoji syntax - :p encil: How can I find these emoticon character sequences but not when other characters are near them? The entire regex I'm using for all the emoticons is huge, so here's a trimed down version: (\:\)|\:\(|<3|\:\/|\:-\/|\:\||

Right now I am using this function for emoticons: function emoticons($text) { $icons = array( ':)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />', ':-)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_smile" />', ':D' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="smile" class="icon_laugh" />', ':d' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="laugh" class="icon_laugh" />', ';)' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="wink" class="icon_wink" />', ':P' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class="icon_tounge" />', ':-P' => '<img src="/images/blank.gif" alt="tounge" class=

I have an array with: emoticons = { ':-)' : 'smile1.gif', ':)' : 'smile2.gif', ':D' : 'smile3.gif' } then i have a variabile with the text. var text = 'this is a simple test :)'; and a variable with the url of the website var url = "http://www.domain.com/"; How to write a function that replace the symbols with their images? The <img> tag result should be: <img src="http://www.domain.com/simple2.gif" /> (I have to concatenate the url varible to the name of the image). THank you very much! CMS Another approach: function replaceEmoticons(text) { var emoticons = { ':-)' : 'smile1.gif', ':)' :

I am trying to store a tweet in my MYSQL table. The tweet is: quiero que me escuches, no te burles no te rias, anoche tuve un sueño que te fuiste de mi vida 🎶🎶 The final two characters are both 'MULTIPLE MUSICAL NOTES' (U+1F3B6) , for which the UTF-8 encoding is 0xf09f8eb6 . The tweet_text field in my table is encoded in utf8mb4 . But when I try to store the tweet in that column I get the following error message: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB6\xF0\x9F...' for column 'tweet_text' at row 1. What is going wrong? How can I fix this? I need to store multiple languages as well and this