Along with alphanumeric characters, African click sounds, mathematical and geometric symbols, dingbats, and computer control sequences, emojis can be represented as Unicode characters, making them computer-readable. Unlike alphanumeric characters and other symbols, however, emojis are maintained by the Unicode Consortium. The consortium solicits proposals for new emojis, and regularly selects which emojis will be... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

ASCII isn't the only encoding method. You're looking at unicode characters, which can be expressed as numbers just like ASCII characters based on the encoding system . More to your point, if you were already in the mozilla documentation, why didn't you just read their explanation of how it's handled? Source: about 1 year ago

They are simply unicode characters. Https://home.unicode.org/ Try it in VS Code. Yes, an Emoji is valid in JS. Different browsers render the emojis differently though. Source: about 1 year ago

When you refer to something as an “Emoji” you indicate that they’re apart of the Unicode language. What Reddit is doing is not considered apart of unicode therefore not technically an “Emoji”, instead it’s just a plain old image used in text format. Source: over 1 year ago

For almost any character that needs to be added to computers globally, you go to bug Unicode and they may add it to a new version of the UTF standard. From there people who make relevant software will gradually adopt it. Source: over 1 year ago

Kinda like Gravatar, already used by a lot of big services: https://gravatar.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I think you're talking about Gravatar: https://gravatar.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Ghost uses Gravatar to pull in a profile picture. Ask users to go to https://en.gravatar.com/ to create an account and set a profile picture using the same email and it should show up. Source: about 1 year ago

A Gravatar, or Globally Recognized Avatar, is a personalized profile picture that follows you across the web, it is made by the same company that created WordPress, and is used within the WordPress software by default to create accounts. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

We use Gravatar to check if a user has a profile photo for their email, otherwise we default to the color + initial letters :). Source: over 1 year ago