Pidgin emoticon iOS support

[Phil Hannent]

Hi again,

I would look up the font name that is being applied to the messages. You
might be able to see this in Pidgin's debug window as part of the XMPP
messages. Once you know the font name, you could check that it is actually
installed on the computer, then you could look to see if it usable with GTK
which Pidgin uses.

Phil


On 7 October 2013 18:28, Sebastian Bergström <sebastian at healthyheroes.se>wrote:

> 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/
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Sebastian Bergström
> Community Manager
> www.healthyheroes.se
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