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Kaushal-Mehta
Microsoft
MicrosoftPreview exited, now GA: Expanded Emoji Picker
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The expanded emoji update brings users the fun and expressiveness they love from other platforms into Teams. It also introduces a far wider range of diversity and representation in our ...
anzhygMicrosoft
MicrosoftI believe typing opening parenthesis and something after that is a common pattern that most of the times does _not_ indicate the wish to insert emoji. Why this cue was chosen to open shortcode picker? Was there any telemetry or user data that suggested that this is a common pattern?
Also, how this would be handled in the languages that have full-width version of parenthesis (e.g., Japanese) or do not have parenthesis on their usual hardware keyboard layout?
Also, how this would be handled in the languages that have full-width version of parenthesis (e.g., Japanese) or do not have parenthesis on their usual hardware keyboard layout?
- anzhygAnother feedback: I noticed that the last two "hand gesture" emoji (heart mark and fist bump) are not Unicode standard. How would they be displayed of I copy and paste the text from Teams to another app (on Windows or otherwise)?
- Maybe they're stylized versions of 🤟 and 🤜/🤛? I would hope so, at least.
- Jason_SchumacherThe heart hands emoji and the fist bump emojis are actually unique and custom-made!
- Apparently, these are not displayed as Unicode characters, but as PNGs or GIFs.
- Jason_SchumacherThanks for the feedback! Teams uses a custom set of emojis which includes some which are animated.
- Jason_Schumacher
Thank you for the feedback! The Teams emojis will appear as a static version of the emoji when pasted outside of Teams.
- Jason_SchumacherThank you for the feedback! The parentheses pattern was selected to improve discoverability and to avoid conflicts with common emoticons like 🙂 and :P. However, our team is taking alternative shortcode patterns into consideration.
- Don't suggest emojis after the ":" until you've gotten to 2 characters, like discord does. That covers both common use cases.
- Jason_SchumacherThe team is considering options regarding shortcode functionality for the future. Thank you for this suggestion.
Jason_Schumacher I'd like to suggest the pattern of a double parentheses "((" as the trigger. Outside of typing in code, I generally don't see them doubled up, however it still easy to type.
- Jason_SchumacherThe team is considering options regarding shortcode functionality for the future. Thank you for this suggestion.
