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# Add Emoji To GitHub Repository Description
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GitHub restricts the set of unicode characters that can appear in the
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description field of a repository to anything up to `0xffff`. Most emoji
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have unicode values above this. This means you will have limited success
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adding emoji via your system's emoji keyboard.
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Fortunately, GitHub allows you to add any recognized emoji to a repository
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description with its specialized emoji syntax (e.g. `:memo:`). You may have
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used this syntax in other parts of GitHub such as the issue tracker.
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If you add an emoji like this:
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it will show up like so:
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Check out this [Emoji Cheat Sheet](http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/) for
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the names of all recognized emojis.
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