Forum Discussion
Image/icon appearing as site name/title?
Site name support emoji icons. These icons will show up in the site list.
Users can add these emoji's for any type of sites, not just team sites.
Call me narrow-minded, but this seems like a terrible idea from a management/governance perspective. If we're using, say, a Powershell script to routinely export a list of "recently created sites", how would those emojis be represented in text? Images are not text. Or are these emojis stored with 'alt text' or something like that which would be used for data operations?
Also, I would wager that many (most?) organizations fight an uphill battle with managing naming policies and getting users to specify meaningful identifiers. Then again, I guess the coaches of our basketball team could create a site with basketball emoji as the name, so maybe there's some utility in it.
Emojis are stored as unicode which is documented here:
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
So there should be a way to handle them even in scripts.
Site URL's cannot contain emoji's as far as I know so you can still differentiate these sites by looking at their URLs. I would be curious to see what the URL's are for the sites you shared in your original picture.
Sebastien Fouillade, here is another screenshot of those two sites (both named <crescent moon emoji>) and another I created via MS Teams with <ninja cat emoji> as the Team name. I can't see any correlation between the URL assigned an the actual emoji. I also find it interesting the the one created via Teams has the "msteams_" prefix. I assume this only gets applied when a non-text Team name is specified, but it would be great to have confirmation of that.