I have no emojis and I must :(

WordPress supports emojis. Behold: 🙂

However, there are two types of emojis:

1. Emojis that are converted from emoticon text such as :) turning into a happy face
2. Emojis that are entered using an emoji picker, such as the one in Windows 11:

The former work fine on this blog, but because the database goes all the way back to the ancient internet time of 2005, it uses an old type of character encoding that can’t handle emojis and turns them into question marks instead, like so: ??

This means creolened.com can never show the full and resplendent range of emojis.

🙁

I could convert the database over to accommodate this, but that risks mucking things up on a sitewide scale. And as much as I’d <3¹WordPress support suggest this should auto-convert to a heart emoji, but alas it does not appear to do so. to have a full array of emojis to draw from, as I am a silly person, I am also at least a little practical.

😳