We use Font Awesome icons in our software and since NodeBB also utilizes Font Awesome icons, I wondered if there was a way to include them in the text of forum posts, similar to Emoji. This would make pointing users at specific buttons/controls a breeze since we could use the icons directly rather than descriptions of them or images.

I've searched around quite a bit but I haven't found anything promising in plugins or in previous forum posts.

It seems like it shouldn't be terribly difficult to implement in a Markdown enhancement but I didn't want to start down that road without checking first, to avoid reinventing the wheel.