It would be nice if this at least supported the standard mac and windows emojis. While I can select them, some randomly do not appear correctly in the sidebar. Correctly shown, the emoji appears to the left of the title as a replacement of the general shortcut icon.  However, many emojis will appear as part of the title and the shortcut icon is still on the left.  Arrows are the most basic need and not one is supported properly.

Can you please support the full Emoji set that is used in Basecamp, Github, Slack, etc? http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/

I need a german and US flag as emoticons to create my pages in both languages - I am the administrator of our company confluence version 5.4.3. I need a possibility to add the flags easily. Otherwise each user upload his own picture and the look and feel is terrible

I've made a similar suggestion in CONF-19126 to provide shortcuts for arrow symbols. For example, typing --> could be converted into a proper symbol (→).

@Adnan: The link you provide is broken. I found this as the most recent related article: http://developer.atlassian.com/x/vwAf
Also, while I see what you mean about how this could "fulfill most the use cases that you have raised," the workaround is way too heavy. It involves getting a developer involved in something an end-user-admin would want to do from the web interface. I'd really appreciate it if this could be considered for an upcoming release.

@David: Confluence 2.8 allows you to writer Rendered Component Plugins (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Renderer+Component+Plugins) which will let you fulfil most the use cases that you have raised.

One thing to be wary of is the impact on wiki rendering. While having this feature would only make a small impact on each render, when you scale that up to many thousands of hits per minute it could cause a server to grind really badly.

The way I'd ideally like to see this implemented is a page in Global Administration that allows users to specify both the text that should be replaced, and what it should be replaced with. It'd be nice for there to be some advanced capabilities as well, e.g.:

• Support for regex expressions in the 'to-replace' field
• A choice of content types for the 'replace-with' field, e.g. image / markup / HTML

I'd think (although I may be wrong) that this would not involve too much additional work to implement - at the core it's pretty much the same thing... e.g. providing a user interface to whichever bit of Confluence parses wiki notation and checks for strings to replace. The only real difference is that the string/replacement combinations would not be limited to text/image combinations.

I think that compared to the extra work involved, the benefits would be substantial... it would have a huge range of uses including:

• Capture product names and replace them with images; or replace them with text that is formatted consistently, correctly capitalised, has required TM & (c) symbols, etc.
• Making sure important or obscure acroynms are expanded to their full terms
• Automatically converting certain phrases to article links for a huge boost to content navigation & organisation
• Many more!

A couple of general thoughts:

• The page could be used to upload new images directly to the same folder that the other icons are stored in
• The default emoticon set could just be entries in the list, allowing users to remove them or change their syntax
• A 'would-be-nice' feature would be to optionally restrict individual items to certain spaces - e.g. poor old Andy could sleep peacefully at night safe in the knowledge that his MAC addresses won't be grinning stupidly at his users, while they could still be used in personal spaces/etc.
• The notation guide would need to be updated

I vote for this!

Being able to add new emoticons would be a dream. Also, what about allowing import of PNphpBB2 smiley packs and other IM smileys etc? There are loads of packs out there that people might want to include...