[This list was first created in 2009, when sending someone a Unicode snowman was a big deal.]
I guess whether these work or not depends on font support, not OS, so I combined all the horizontal ones regardless of whether they work everywhere. Paste at your own risk!
TODO: Assimilate these:
- http://www.reddit.com/tb/87kmx
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons#Eastern
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (look for emoticons)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji (顔文字) [done]
- http://unicodeemoticons.com/howto.htm [done]
- http://superkawaiiemoticon.tumblr.com/post/21630699578/emoji-master-post [done]
- everything in the gist comments [done as of 2014-03-18]
2022-10-27 I've removed Unicode official emojis.txt
as these are completely mainstream now, supported in every app ever, the number of them have exploded, and they have whole websites dedicated to documenting them, like https://emojipedia.org/
More distinctive Lenny Faces from https://font-copy.fun/lenny-face
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