Emacs 23 or later is required. Get emoji images from FireMobileSimulator or EmojiPrint. FireMobileSimulator http://firemobilesimulator.org/ EmojiPrint http://www.takaaki.info/addon/emojiprint/ 1. Place .el files to a loadable directory, and byte-compile as needed. 2. Set emoji-display-image-directory variable appropriately or place image directory to the same directory of .el files. 3. Add your ~/.emacs as below code. (require 'emoji-display) (emoji-display-mode) Known problems * Resources are exhausted on MS Windows. * Some animated images are corrupted.