review use of emojis for cross-platform compatability

[setchy]

Originally posted by @Araxeus in #1441 (comment)

Same but the network error icon isnt even rendering for me (Windows)

This issue is to review all of our emojis to ensure they exist on macOS, Windows and Linux

[Araxeus]

here are all the emojis that arent supported on my windows machine:

[setchy]

and on macOS

[setchy]

@Araxeus - are you on Windows 11 or older?

TIL about emojipedia

• https://emojipedia.org/wireless#designs
• https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear#designs
• https://emojipedia.org/melting-face#designs

[Araxeus]

i'm on Windows 10 yes

[setchy]

i'm on Windows 10 yes

Thanks! Looks like Windows 10 is using an Unicode/Emoji set from May 2019.

[Araxeus]

Windows 11 has just about 30% adoption rate (source1 -- source2)

so we should probably support Windows 10 😅

[setchy]

@Araxeus - would you mind sharing a screenshot of the ALL_READ_EMOJIS for Windows

macOS

[Araxeus]

[setchy]

A few possible paths forward which I have prototyped locally

In no particular order

1. Remove emojis that aren't available on Win10
2. Continue using emojis, but add special handling for win10 emojis (assuming we can get this level of OS details)
3. Replace with an equivalent Octicons - already used extensively within the codebase
4. Replace with an equivalent Heroicons - from tailwindcss
5. Replace with an equivalent FontAwesome Icon
6. Replace with twemoji, a popular emoji to svg parser

Any initial thoughts @Araxeus, @afonsojramos, @bmulholland

[Araxeus]

I'd say replace them with whatever looks best?

[setchy]

I think I'll prototype going down this route - https://github.com/twitter/twemoji, or the maintained fork https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji