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  • WordPress 4.2 Will Natively Support Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Characters

    WordPress 4.2 Will Natively Support Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Characters

    WordPress 4.2 will soon be released with expanded core support for emoji, a new feature that users either love or love to hate. By making a key database change from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4 to add support for emoji, WordPress also receives the benefit of being able to natively handle Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. On…

    Jeff Chandler

  • WordPress.com Gets New Standard and Secret Emoticons

    WordPress.com Gets New Standard and Secret Emoticons

    Emoticons are believed to have been invented in 1982 by Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who suggested that they be used on “computer bulletin boards.” Though not widely used at that time, emoticon usage exploded with the popularity of AOL’s Instant Messenger in the 1990’s. Now, more than 30 years later, emoticons…

    Sarah Gooding