Apple and Google Propose Standardized Encoding for... Emoji!
Love them or hate them, miracle or menace, Emoji are standard message elements in Japan and have caught some favor among internet iPhone users (and TiPb Forum staff...)
The problem, however, is that there's currently no standard way to encode the little mega-smileys across different carriers and platforms, leading to a lot of "translation" work in between. The solution?
engineers from Google and Apple have got together to try to propose an encoding for these emoji (they have identified 674 of them!) that can be added to the official standard ISO/IEC 10646, as can be seen in this document, Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols.
Maybe next Apple could work on not requiring complex, app-bound Emoji activation processes for non-Japanese iPhones? Sumo, tiny red cars, and weirdly smiling brown piles for everyone!
[Via What Japan Thinks, thanks Georgia for the tip!]
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Rene! I have a request
Can you make a profile for us commenters, so we can follow our comments? That would be a great feature!
2nd that!
BTW, I'm in a love/hate relationship with Emoji.
How about tying our logins with our usernames on the forums? I don't understand why it can't be all linked anyway.
I love me some Emoji although i do have one gripe. Whenever i use an emoticon it gets rid of auto correction. Anyone else have this problem?
I love emoji!
= my favorite emoji
emoji
so they are trynna make so that noniphone users can view emojis as well? its about time!!!
I think that skype emocations are best.
At times I am sorry I jailbroke and installed the emoji hack for one friend. Every message he sends has at least one emoji. Most messages are made up of nothing but emoji.
But I still feel emoji are the
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Clearly, BlackBlood needs to learn how to spell without autocorrect
Love emoji , cant wait to get on my android Htc Desire HD, i can type them but cant see on the screen
How do I download emoji for htc desire. Cos I do not want to download sms pro go just for emoji. It takes up the space. Please let me know.