secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Emoji's in Display names.

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Since Jun 25, 2026.

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I was a very sad 😿today when I went to try and change the two hearts in my display name to colorful hearts and found the client does not support the format. Is there any chance this could be added? It would really be cool to have emoji support in display names!! Thanks 🙂💖

https://secondlife.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/emojis-in-display-names

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