Using emoticons - scripting

Hey! I noticed that with current TMPro you can display emoticons in line with text. All works great when you assign them in the editor. I do it by copying from getemoji.com page and pasting to TextMeshProUGUI text window.

My question is how to use emoticons when assigning text (string) values by scripts? Do they have IDs so that we can use them in line with text?

 

See this post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/can-i-assign-a-sprite-in-tmps-sprite-asset.536367/#post-3534241

 

It is important to understand that Emojis like any other character are mapped to some unicode value. Some are mapped in the UTF16 range and others in the UTF32.

To access Unicode characters in C# strings, you can use the Unicode Escape Sequence \uFF00 which \u + 2 Hex pair for UTF16 and \UFF00FF00 or \U + 4 hex pairs.

When creating Sprite Assets, you can also assign unicode values and names to individual Sprites / Emojis.

 

Stephan, this is what I needed to know, thank you.
After some testing I found out that there are 16 emojis delivered with standard TextMeshPro package. Previously I had a feeling that all of them are mapped because I tested two emojis and they happened to be within these 16