Answers.Body: <p>@laryn the short answer is that for this to work your database needs to be changed. CiviCRM by standard sets things to be utf8_unicode_ci. You will need to convert database to utf8mb4_unicode_ci to allow for Emojis and you would need to change the setNames call in CiviCRM to be utf8mb4 as per <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7814293/how-to-insert-utf-8-mb4-characteremoji-in-ios5-in-mysql">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7814293/how-to-insert-utf-8-mb4-characteremoji-in-ios5-in-mysql</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: So -- not supported without some hacking, at least at this point! Thanks.
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Answers.Text: Update: converting CiviCRM tables to `utf8mb4` is in the roadmap: https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/wikis/utf8mb4
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Body: <p>I am curious if anyone has used Emojis in CiviMail content. I just tried a test mailing with an Emoji in the subject and message body, which show up fine in the editor but do not appear in the test message in my inbox.</p>
  
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Title: Has anyone used Emojis in CiviMail subject/body?
ThreadText: # Has anyone used Emojis in CiviMail subject/body?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-17)
  
  I am curious if anyone has used Emojis in CiviMail content. I just tried a test mailing with an Emoji in the subject and message body, which show up fine in the editor but do not appear in the test message in my inbox.
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-11-17. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
  
  @username_0 the short answer is that for this to work your database needs to be changed. CiviCRM by standard sets things to be utf8\_unicode\_ci. You will need to convert database to utf8mb4\_unicode\_ci to allow for Emojis and you would need to change the setNames call in CiviCRM to be utf8mb4 as per <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7814293/how-to-insert-utf-8-mb4-characteremoji-in-ios5-in-mysql>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: So -- not supported without some hacking, at least at this point! Thanks.  
  > **username_0**: Update: converting CiviCRM tables to `utf8mb4` is in the roadmap: https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/wikis/utf8mb4  
  > **username_2**: Perhaps it would help to vote for https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/issues/339 to remember to go for it?  
  
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