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diff --git a/doc/todo/smileys_should_support_Unicode_Emojis.mdwn b/doc/todo/smileys_should_support_Unicode_Emojis.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9bbfeaa46 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/smileys_should_support_Unicode_Emojis.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +Why are there graphic-based smileys at all, when Unicode supports most of them directly? + +What Unicode doesn't support can be handled by FontAwesome or a little CSS. + +Keeping font-based solutions to emojis allows them to scale naturally with the fonts. An emoji in the title becomes a different size than an emoji in paragraph, or an emoji in a subscript. + +Here's a smileys.mdwn file that doesn't use any graphics at all: + +<pre> +This page is used to control what smileys are supported by the wiki. +Just write the text of a smiley to display it. + +* \\:) [đ] +* \\:smile: [đ] +* \\:-) [đ] +* \\:D [đ] +* \\:-D [đ] +* \\:grin: [đ] +* \\B) [đ] +* \\B-) [đ] +* \\:)) [đ] +* \\:-)) [đ] +* \\;) [đ] +* \\;-) [đ] +* \\:\ [đ] +* \\:-\ [đ] +* \\:/ [đ] +* \\:-/ [đ] +* \\:| [đ] +* \\:-| [đ] +* \\>:> [đ] +* \\X-( [đĄ] +* \\<:( [đ§] +* \\:( [đ] +* \\:-( [đ] +* \\:-? [đ] +* \\:-P [đ] +* \\:o [đą] +* \\|) [đĒ] +* \\|-) [đĒ] +* \\{OK} [đ] +* \\:+1: [đ] +* \\:-1: [đ] +* \\(/) [đĢ] +* \\{X} [đ] +* \\{i} [âšī¸] +* \\(./) [âī¸] +* \\(!) [đĄ] +* \\[!] [â] +* \\/!\ [â ī¸] +* \\(?) [â] +* \\(!?) [âī¸] +* \\{x} [â] +* \\{*} [âī¸] +* \\{o} [â] +* \\{1} [<span class="priority-1">đ</span>] +* \\{2} [<span class="priority-2">đ</span>] +* \\{3} [<span class="priority-3">đ<span>] + +For example: {x} B) {x} {3} :grin: :-1: + +---- + +To change the supported smileys, just edit the lists on this page. +Note that the format is important; each list item should start with the +text that is turned into the smiley, escaped so that users can see what +produces it, followed by a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] to the image to display. + +/!\ Bear in mind that the link to the image needs to be written in a way that +will work if it's copied to other pages on the wiki. So be sure to include the +smileys directory in the path to the file. +</pre> + +Here's the patch to smiley.pm: + +<pre> +--- smiley.pm.orig 2017-05-26 18:00:01.000000000 -0400 ++++ smiley.pm 2017-05-26 22:01:18.000000000 -0400 +@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@ + return; + } + my $list=readfile($srcfile); +- while ($list =~ m/^\s*\*\s+\\\\([^\s]+)\s+\[\[([^]]+)\]\]/mg) { ++ while ($list =~ m/^\s*\*\s+\\\\([^\s]+)\s+\[([^\]]+)\]/mg) { + my $smiley=$1; +- my $file=$2; ++ my $value=$2; + +- $smileys{$smiley}=$file; ++ $smileys{$smiley}=$value; + + # Add a version with < and > escaped, since they probably + # will be (by markdown) by the time the sanitize hook runs. + $smiley=~s/</</g; + $smiley=~s/>/>/g; +- $smileys{$smiley}=$file; ++ $smileys{$smiley}=$value; + } + + if (! %smileys) { +@@ -94,10 +94,18 @@ + } + else { + # Replace the smiley with its expanded value. +- my $link=htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, +- $smileys{$smiley}, linktext => $smiley); +- substr($_, $spos, length($smiley))=$link; +- pos=$epos+length($link); ++ my $value = $smileys{$smiley}; ++ my $replacement = ""; ++ if ($value =~ /\[([^\]]*)/) { ++ $value=$1; ++ $replacement=htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, ++ $value, linktext => $smiley); ++ } ++ else { ++ $replacement=$value; ++ } ++ substr($_, $spos, length($smiley))=$replacement; ++ pos=$epos+length($replacement); + } + } + +</pre> + +As you can see, it keeps the [] characters around the smiley. This can be useful if it renders to nothing in the browser -- particularly in the CSS-based solutions. + +It keeps the same data structure, but images get a "[" prefix to them as a marker. Since I minimized the changes to the regex, the trailing "]" is still dropped. |