Using emojis in emails (body not subject)

[SanfordWhiteman]

In this case you aren't using Velocity as a scripting engine nor accessing any lead fields, you're merely using it as a, shall we say, encapsulation engine to stop Marketo from messing w/output.

So create a Velocity token and put whatever text/HTML you want in there. You don't need to check off any fields on the right side.

Then embed the {{my.velocityToken}} in your email.

[Anonymous]

Oh ok, velocity token made it sound more complicated than it is! I was actually able to get an emoji in my body copy by inserting 😀 into either an email script token or a plain text token and referencing that token in the body. Thanks

[SanfordWhiteman]

Great, that's the way it's done!

[Anshika_Jain]

I tried adding the unicode 😀 to the email body HTML, but when I previewed it deleted the emoji and the following text. Any suggestions?
I was wondering if it is an email editor 2.0 issue?

[SanfordWhiteman]

As explained just above, put this character in a Velocity token, then include the token.

[Anshika_Jain]

Thanks for the suggestion, but would you mind elaborating on that, I'm not familiar with Velocity token.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Velocity is the language used to write "Email Script" tokens.

If you search the Community, you'll see many, many threads and blog posts exploring Velocity.

[Austin_Whiting1]

Hi there, did you surround &#x1F600 with anything in these tokens? Right now just using &#x1F600 as an example, I'm just seeing the text. Thanks a lot. 

[SanfordWhiteman]

Needs a semicolon at the end or else it's not special.