Emoticons/Smilies are supported but not Emojis in particular. I see the white question marks in the black diamonds. I believe you're using what's included on your phone as emojis or an app to use emojis which will not work in vBulletin as it doesn't know the emojis on your phone/app respectively. I do not know of a way to support this unless as someone mentioned above Tapatalk or another phone type mod supports it.

The problem with emojis is that they are unique to the device/os. what may look like a dog on one person's device, looks like the green Droid on mine, or comes across as strange symbols, because the sender has custom emojis installed, and I do not.

So if someone uses an emoji from the iOS keyboard, is there anyway to convert it to something that vbulletin will understand? Not necessarily show the emoji, but understand the code that creates it.

For example if I make a post on our site from my iPhone, and add an emoji from the native keyboard. I can see the emoji on my phone, and all I see on a desktop is a rectangle with 6 characters in it (like my screenshot above). The issue is, when I go to edit that post from my desktop, the edit box appears but the post text is not there, it's just an empty box.

This is is the issue I am having.

However it seems the same thing is not happening on vbulletin.org - my emojis just get shown as black diamonds after posting (both iPhone and PC) - somewhere they are being converted into something else.

Can anyone explain that?

sorry, android only, so i cannot help you.

You would have to ask Tapatalk, as they would have to code it in their plugin.

Just taking Tapatalk out of the equation for a second, my example above of posting from my iPhone was just from Safari - so it's all vBulletin - no Tapatalk at all.

How can vBulletin convert the iOS emoji characters into something else?

I'm in the same point. Any solution for this?