How to send emojis from bot to user in Microsoft teams

Question

I created a bot in the MS bot framework and linked it to the Teams channel. How to send emoji from bot to users?

Teams support UTF-16, I have tried await stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync("\U0001F600"); to send the emoji as a response from bot to the user, but it is not in the format of the emoji which is available in teams.

stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync("\U0001F600"); it shows when I actually want is (smile) from teams which is slightly bigger and animated.

The emoji in teams are stored in the form of URL: " https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/evergreen-assets/skype/v2/smile/50.png "

Answer 1

If you are using windows and Visual Studio, you can simply press " window key +. " and you will get a window with emojis that you can simply add to your text.

Or you can also copy any emoji and paste it in your text. Check Emojipedia

Answer 2

All of the emojis have their textual code. For example: :):P:D When you want to send a smiley append “:)” into the text and it will automatically render it as smiley in the chat box.

Also for every single recipient device, code could be rendered in a different manner, you can check the complete list here:

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html#1f642

I would suggest you to use 1f642 code for slightly smiling face.

See if it helps.