Emojis are the new generation of emoticons and can be used in messages or on sites like Facebook to express a certain mood or an action with a simple symbol drawn in a colorful and fun way. Emojis can be read and viewed on any device, be it a Windows PC, a Mac, an Android smartphone or an iPhone, only that they are a bit hidden and must be activated manually.
In another article we saw how to enable Emoji smileys on Android, iPhone and iPad .
Now let's see how to use the Emoji keyboard on a Windows PC and on Mac to see and write messages on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or any other site or app that supports them.
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Before activating them, let's see if we can immediately read them on the computer by going to the getemoji.com site or the istartedsomething site
If you see all the squares, then the computer does not have support for emojis.
The Emojipedia site also has a section of the most recent emoji released.
On Windows 10 PCs they are natively supported so they should be visible and nothing needs to be done.
On Windows 7 PCs (and on Windows 10 and 8 if they are not seen) an update of the Segoe font is required, for Windows 7 32 Bit and for Windows 7 64 bit.
If they were seen in black and white, it means that the browser does not support them.
Try opening the same page with Firefox or Internet Explorer and you should see all the colored emojis.
To write emojis, for example on Twitter or even on Facebook and on programs such as Word, if you have Windows 8 and Windows 10, just open the on-screen keyboard.
Then right-click on the taskbar at the bottom, select Toolbars with the pointer and click on Virtual keyboard.
Then open the virtual keyboard by pressing the button visible at the bottom right of Windows 10 and press the emoticon button located next to CTRL to open the Emoji keyboard with all the various Emoji symbols grouped into categories.
Note, for example, that Emojis also work on Word and Powerpoint documents, both on Microsoft Office and on LibreOffice or any other writing program, choosing the Segoe UI Semibold as font.
On Microsoft Word, press Insert on the top menu and then the symbol button on the top right.
In Windows 10 you can invoke the emoji keyboard directly, without going through the virtual keyboard, with the combination of Windows-dot keys.
To write Emoji on Chrome you can install an extension like Emoji Keyboard, which allows you to call up a keyboard of emoticons and smiley faces to insert them into any website.
To write Emoji on websites you can also install the Emoji Keyboard extension for Chrome which makes all smileys appear by a button at the top right to insert them in any text field.
To write instead the Emojis in Windows 7 or other special facets that are not contained in the virtual keyboard of Windows 10, you can do nothing but copy and paste.
Then open the getemoji.com page, select the symbol you want to use with the mouse, press CTRL-C together and then, on Facebook or Twitter, open a text box to write the status or a comment and press CTRL-V to view the emoji.
Alternatively, you can also find other online emojis for sites, Messenger, Whatsapp and web chat
On Mac, to write Emoji just click on a text box to write and then press the Control-Command-Space keys together.
In addition to the GetEmoji site mentioned above, there are also other sites from which to copy the various symbols to use them on Twitter, Facebook or other applications.
For example, the iemoji.com website describes itself as the Emoji keyboard for computers and allows you to write by clicking on the various drawings which can then be copied and pasted wherever you want.
From here it is possible to choose different graphic themes of Emoji, including that of Android, iOS, Samsung and LG, also including the new Emojis (which, as mentioned above, I was unable to use).
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