XF 2.1 Emoji support not working since upgrading to XF 2.1

[PumpinIron]

On XF 2.0 I was using emoji support following this guide:

Emoji support | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

However, as of XenForo 2.1, it no longer works when I type out an emoji such as ; )

Am I missing something?

 

[Chris D]

I think you may be confusing emojis and smilies there.

XF has always used ;) as the smilie (in XF1 it was just a different image).

As you can see, there's no reason that wouldn't work in XF 2.1 (it works here).

 

[PumpinIron]

Hmmm, I'm just saying that when I used to type out

;)

on XF 2.0, it would convert to a smiley (or is it an emoji?).

When I do that now in XF 2.1, nothing happens. This has nothing to do with emoji support then as mentioned in that article I linked to above?

 

[Chris D]

It is nothing to do with emoji support, no. We've had smilies since XF 1.0:



But my main point was we haven't actually changed anything there in XF 2.1 and you can see here when I type it does convert it to the smilie image.

I guess the first port of call is to head over to the Admin CP > Content > Smilies section and make sure your smilie appears there with the ;) text and is enabled etc



Does it appear in the smilie menu in the editor?

 

[PumpinIron]

It is nothing to do with emoji support, no. We've had smilies since XF 1.0:

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But my main point was we haven't actually changed anything there in XF 2.1 and you can see here when I type it does convert it to the smilie image.

I guess the first port of call is to head over to the Admin CP > Content > Smilies section and make sure your smilie appears there with the ;) text and is enabled etc

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Does it appear in the smilie menu in the editor?

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Okay, I'm just confused then, that's why.

I'm missing the default smilies for some reason, so perhaps that's what's going on. Not sure where they went?

Is there an easy way to restore the default smilies by chance?

 

[Chris D]

Try extracting this, and using the Import function on the smilies page to import the xf-smilies-default.xml file.

 

[PumpinIron]

Try extracting this, and using the Import function on the smilies page to import the xf-smilies-default.xml file.

Muchas gracias, that did the trick!

 

[FrankPereiro]

Try extracting this, and using the Import function on the smilies page to import the xf-smilies-default.xml file.

Hi Cris, that didn't work for me, I'm still missing the smilies and the custom smilies on my site.

 

[Kevin]

the page is displaying as if the .png was a single smilie.

When looking at the smilies in your ACP on your test site versus the Prod site, on the Prod site do you have the 'sprite mode' turned on with the dimensions specified? If you don't have the sprite mode turned on then you'd be seeing the full image like on your sample link.

 

[Steve Gibson]

When looking at the smilies in your ACP on your test site versus the Prod site, on the Prod site do you have the 'sprite mode' turned on with the dimensions specified? If you don't have the sprite mode turned on then you'd be seeing the full image like on your sample link.

Thank you SO MUCH! I was about to move my question to a new thread. I'll check out what you suggest!

 

[Steve Gibson]

When looking at the smilies in your ACP on your test site versus the Prod site, on the Prod site do you have the 'sprite mode' turned on with the dimensions specified? If you don't have the sprite mode turned on then you'd be seeing the full image like on your sample link.

That's where the trouble was! Sprite Mode was enabled, but the per-sprite configuration data was missing. So I'll go through each one to fix them. Thanks so much for the pointer!

 

[FrankPereiro]

In my case, the reason the emojis/smilies weren't showing was because of an add-on... I've disabled the add-on and now everything is showing up like it's supposed to.

Thanks...

 

[Ozzy47]

In my case, the reason the emojis/smilies weren't showing was because of a add-on... I've disabled the add-on and now everything is showing up like it's supposed to.

Thanks...

Which addon was that?

 

[FrankPereiro]

Which addon was that?

Hi there, it was this one: Editor & BB Code Manager

As soon as I disabled this add-on the emojis showed up in the editor...

 

[Ozzy47]

Ahh, good to know.