#OPERA BROWSER NOW EMOJIONLY WEB ADDRESSES ANDROID#

#OPERA BROWSER NOW EMOJIONLY WEB ADDRESSES ANDROID#

Depending on your Android keyboard, it is supported and iOS seems to support it as well. However, on Windows Phone the keyboard brought up by both Internet Explorer and Opera Mini don’t let you enter emoji’s. They don’t show the domain in Punycode, they show it in emoji instead.Įmoji URL’s are supposedly an easier way to type in a URL on a phone than a fully spelled-out domain name. I stumbled upon and they do an amazing job. Not every registrar plays nicely with emoji URL’s. For example, I had trouble with the global soccer (association football) emoji but oddly the (American) football emoji showed up everywhere just fine. Not all emoji’s show up on all devices yet, so hold off on using brand-new emoji’s. So be prepared to use some less well known TLD’s. I’ve found a lot of success registering with. com domain doesn’t support emoji URL’s, or someone bought up all the emoji URL names already. There are a few caveats with emoji URL’s –Įither the. I then just told my registrar to URL forward back to this blog. If you click on the emoji URL again – – you’ll notice that the address bar will quickly change to the Punycode domain name of. Any very-modern browser will translate the emoji to Punycode and then do the DNS lookup to see where it is supposed to go. For the emoji’s in the URL above, the Punycode is:Īnd here comes the final bit of joy – take some Punycode and register a domain name with it.

As you add and arrange emoji’s (or any character, really) a unique ASCII hash gets created. If you don’t want to read the Wikipedia article, it boils down to this: It’s basically a text version of a binary table. The magic behind all of this is something called “ Punycode“. Which then led me to creating my own emoji URL.

Last night I accidentally stumbled across this article – You Can Now Visit Norwegian Airlines Using an All-Emoji URL

Opera browser now emojionly web addresses