Emojis are made up of the following UTF-8 characters:🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇩🇪 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 🇬🇧
What do Emojis mean?
Emojis look like pictures or icons, but they are not.
They are letters from the Unicode (UTF-8) character set.
Almost all of the characters and symbols in the world can be used with UTF-8.
The HTML charset Attribute
The HTML charset attribute tells the computer what kind of characters to use.
A web browser needs to know the character set used on an HTML page in order to show it correctly.
This is what the <meta> tag says:
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
If you don’t tell HTML otherwise, UTF-8 will be used.
Characters in UTF-8
Many UTF-8 characters can’t be typed on a keyboard, but they can always be shown using numbers (called entity numbers):
X is 88, Y is 89 and Z is 90
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
</head>
<body><p>I will display X Y Z</p>
<p>I will display X Y Z</p></body>
</html>
Some Emoji Symbols in UTF-8
| Emoji | Value |
|---|---|
| 🗻 | 🗻 |
| 🗼 | 🗼 |
| 🗽 | 🗽 |
| 🗾 | 🗾 |
| 🗿 | 🗿 |
| 😀 | 😀 |
| 😁 | 😁 |
| 😂 | 😂 |
| 😃 | 😃 |
| 😄 | 😄 |
| 😅 | 😅 |
# Summary
Here is what you've learned in this lesson:
- What do Emojis mean?
- The HTML charset Attribute
- Characters in UTF-8
- Some Emoji Symbols in UTF-8
Continue to the next lesson and learn more about HTML Symbols.