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Introducing Full Emoji Support in NGINX and NGINX Plus Configuration

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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.

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

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

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.

Yes but...can I use emojis exactly like in the config? I want to drive my sysadmin crazy :)

You can, the configs were tested for fun. Go ahead and try them!

(I work at Nginx and Nick sits behind me)

Are there any changes? ;)

There are no changes. We've always had unicode support. We had some fun and created several silly configs :)

(I work @ NGINX.)

Aww man you need to make these actually work! Would nginx accept a pull request? :D

Well, they do! Pull requests welcome, too :) https://github.com/nginxinc/website-resources-conf/blob/mast...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

What a time to be alive

This doesn't seem useful at all. blinkyface

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

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

April Fool's?

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