WebStorm UTF-8 encoding not showing emojis

Question

What encoding should I use in WebStorm to see/display the emojis in the source code?

Right now using utf-8 is not showing the emojis.

Answer 1

It is not currently supported :(

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-111788 -- watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to get notified on any progress.

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UPDATE (2017-02-09): This is a work in progress so hopefully it will be fully available in 2017.1 final.

2017.1 EAP builds already have such support (from first EAP build).

Here is a screenshot IntelliJ IDEA (it uses the same code base for editor features):

From: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/12/intellij-idea-2017-1-eap-is-open/

Emoji

The code editor now correctly handles Unicode emoji characters. On Mac OS X emoji characters are rendered as colored images. On Windows and Linux emoji are rendered as monochrome characters. Go ahead and use emoji in comments, String literals and resources.

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Here is screenshot from the Rider IDE (same editor code base in this regard):