Using Emojis in Social Posts and Emails

You can enter emojis into emails and social posts. When entering emojis into emails, they can be placed in either the email body or the subject line.

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Unicode Format

Unicode is the current standard for displaying text and visual characters on computers and smart devices. Unicode displays characters by way of numbers, known as code points, and not individual glyphs. This allows for Unicode characters to be rendered visually—often in subtly different ways—by web browsers, word processors, and other software.

Emojis are visual characters that represent emotions, places, or things. They are perhaps the most popular non-text characters that can be displayed in Unicode format. Emojis are primarily rendered in a specific Unicode format known as Unicode Transformation Format—8-bit (UTF-8).

UTF-8 encodes over a million different code points. It does so by using a collection of bytes. As such, UTF-8 characters can be encoded with up to four eight-bit bytes. UTF-8 encoding can be represented in the following manner:
 

Each number set following a backslash (\) is considered a byte.
For a list of relevant emojis, refer to the following external documentation: Emoji Unicode Tables.
 

Entering Emojis 

To enter emojis into social posts and emails, create or edit an email, or schedule or publish a social post. To include emojis in your social post content or email content, complete the following steps:

1. Click into the social post text box or email content block and, depending on your computer's operating system, press the following on your keyboard:
    

   Operating System		Keyboard Command
   Mac		Command + Control + Space
   Windows		Win+.   OR   Win+;

   
    
2. Select unicode emojis as needed from the window of available emojis.
   
   

    

If necessary, exit the emoji window. Complete the email or social post as needed.

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