HTML Emojis

Emojis look like images, or icons, but they are not. They are letters (characters) from the UTF-8 (Unicode) character set.

What are Emojis?

Emojis are characters from the UTF-8 character set. The UTF-8 character set covers almost all of the characters and symbols in the world.

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.

This is specified in the `<meta>` tag:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

If not specified, UTF-8 is the default character set in HTML5.

Emojis are also characters from the UTF-8 alphabet:

Emoji Example

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