When I send an emoji on my cell phone, the right emoji is shown for a few seconds, but the person receives question marks and not the emoji. "????"
how to solve?
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Emojis don't work. "????" is shown | Forum
Carlos Padilla
Mar 8 '20
No, it was working normally. And when I moved to a better server it stopped.
Paul
Mar 8 '20
I only recommend it if you know what you are doing.
You have to change the database field type from utf8 to utf8mb4
The Forum post is edited by Paul Mar 8 '20
Leader dave
Mar 8 '20
You do that in phpMyAdmin... however before you go messing with that, send a message to the developer and let him know what is happening, he should be able to assist you.. If you make changes and you dont know what you are doing, you could create new issues or make the issue worse.
Paul
Mar 9 '20
please make ab backup first.
Here is an excample of the message table for PMs, you´ll have to change it in other tables too, if the emojis have to work. Forums. comments, etc
Carlos Padilla
Mar 9 '20
where should you change in phpmyadmin? What is the name of the line. I didn't find it by the print you sent
Paul
Mar 11 '20
PhpMyAdmin is not a plugin or a function from OxWall it is a software to manage databases.
I think you should done this by a professional
I think you should done this by a professional
Carlos Padilla
Mar 11 '20
I made the change but the error remains. still when sending emoji by cell phone is shown ????
Leader dave
Mar 11 '20
Maybe this is a restriction on the receivers end. Could the receiver have some kind of text block enabled on their phone or not have something enabled on their phone. Maybe their phone does not support such characters.
gizmodo.com/why-other-people-cant-see-your-emojis-and-how-to-fix-it-1820037259
quote from the article:
These boxes and question marks appear because emoji support on the sender’s device is not the same as emoji support on the device of the recipient.
The Forum post is edited by dave Mar 11 '20
Carlos Padilla
Mar 11 '20
First of all I would like to thank you for the answers. Back to my problem, in the timeline, emojis usually appear only in the chat that does not.
Leader dave
Mar 11 '20
you confuse me a bit.... is this issue with the oxwall chat at the bottom of the page, are you saying you send a emoji in that chat and the other person gets ????
how are you sending the emoji, by text code or by plugin?
remember that oxwall does not support mobile. They have a mobile version but it is horrible and incomplete, so if you are trying to use the oxwall mobile version there is no support for that yet.
it might help if you take a snapshot or picture of what you are trying to do.
The Forum post is edited by dave Mar 11 '20
