Next release : better emoji support out of the box
Author: ozhCreated Aug 23, 2026Updated Aug 23, 2026
Some foundations are right, like storing everything as utf8mb4 in the DB. Yet, I have the feeling we could be more liberal with the emojis and funky chars, with the following goals :
- out of the box, accept any custom keyword (
ozh,O-Z-H,ozh♥️, etc, with most likely some chars still reserved such as;#{}and a few more) - this should work flawlessly on stat pages, editing keyword, etc
- continue to generate random keywords against an ASCII set
[a-z0-9](uppercase?) - eventually maybe deprecated
YOURLS_URL_CONVERTbecause frankly picking 36 or 62 hasn't be very user friendly
Source: YOURLS/YOURLS