Pidgin emoticon iOS support

[Sebastian Bergström]

Hi Phil

Thank you for your very fast answer.

I really don't know what they are called. But i guess they could be called
Emoji since they are sent on a iOS device. It's the users of the app that
use them and I'm the one who receives them via pidgin. I'm using Windows 8
so should i be able to read the somehow? I do not care about sending
emoticons back to the users. I just want to read them :)




2013/10/7 Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>

> Good evening,
>
> I am just guessing with this advice, btw.
>
> On 7 October 2013 15:28, Sebastian Bergström
> <sebastian at healthyheroes.se> wrote:
>
>>  Hello. I use XMPP in a iOS app of mine and i just implemented emoticon
>> support. Now when i use pidgin with the same chat all the emoticons turned
>> to this "\ud83d\ude03" etc. Is there a codec for this?
>>
>> What character were you trying to send? Because it looks like you are
> sending something that is specific to a particular font:
> http://www.htmlescape.net/d8/character_d83d.html
>
> If you are sending Emoji then that is really dependant on the receiver
> having the font installed to display them, I see that Mac OSX10.7 and
> Windows 8 support them [1]. However the majority of desktop users probably
> are going to require to send an image instead.
>
> Regards
> Phil
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
>
> P.S. On a side note I found this which made me chuckle:
> "So it would seem that, to cut a long story short, Apple’s emoji are
> directly incompatible with every other handset in the world."
> http://inner.geek.nz/archives/2009/02/06/the-truth-about-iphone-emoji/
>
>


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Sebastian Bergström
Community Manager
www.healthyheroes.se
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