Introducing Full Emoji Support in NGINX and NGINX Plus Configuration

[moreira]

The emoji craze has had the nice side-effect of forcing a lot of projects to make sure their stuff supports Unicode properly, because now it's something that even English-speaking software users can appreciate. It's a good thing.

[insulanian]

I never thought about it that way. You are right indeed.

[fluxquanta]

Is this an April Fools thing or not? I legitimately can't tell and it's making me hate this day even more.

[LukeShu]

Sort of. The announcement is obviously silly, and April-Fools-y, but the changes in nginx aren't--what it's really about is Unicode in general, not emojis specifically.

[jxy]

More and more programs supports unicode now. Why stop at Emoji? APL is going to take back the world finally. Anybody still writing a multi-letter identifier in your code? So 80's...

[whalesalad]

A lot of our internal FarmLogs health check endpoints return the tractor emoji when things are kosher.

[notyourwork]

That is really cute! Do you have anything for when things are not so kosher? Perhaps a pile of poo or a flame.

[kristopolous]

As an aside, in HTML, CSS classes have had the ability to be unicode for a long time.

See an example here: http://9ol.es/unicode-demo.html ... view the source

[ultramancool]

Wait, is NGINX Plus a real thing or is that part of the joke too?

[barlo]

It's real. It's their commercial offering.

[ttn]

What a time to be alive

[Numberwang]

This doesn't seem useful at all. blinkyface

[donatj]

Lol I'm just imagining trying to edit these configs in vim on a vt220 and crying.

[pritambaral]

Vim in a current terminal does indeed support entering unicode. I can even type it by value, see :help utf-8-typing

[devy]

April Fool's?

[chucky_z]

A real announcement (unicode support) in an April Fool's package (doing the announcement only mentioning emoji).

LukeShu nailed it with their reply. :)

[hakcermani]

Hahaha !

[supercoder]

Nice , been wanting this