Pidgin emoticon iOS support

[Sebastian Bergström]

Hi Phil

Easy as that.... I was over at the .purple map trying to make something
happen.

I would really like to thank you for your help Phil. You've been great.

I wish you a wonderful day


2013/10/8 Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> If you read the emoji-for-pidgin's read me it has a hyperlink to the file
> to download:
>
>
> https://developer.pidgin.im/raw-attachment/wiki/ThirdPartySmileyThemes/Emoji-for-Pidgin.tar.gz
>
> You then open Pidgins Preferences screen, select the "Themes" tab, then
> drag and drop the tar.gz onto the "Smiley Theme" drop down list. It will
> then load it into there for you to select.
>
> I cannot prove it works but it certainly looks like it should.
>
> Regards
> Phil
>
>
>
> On 8 October 2013 15:38, Sebastian Bergström <sebastian at healthyheroes.se>wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil
>>
>> I found out it is Emoji. And i can see i can import Emoji smileys using
>> this https://github.com/VxJasonxV/emoji-for-pidgin But one thing that i
>> do not understand is. Where do i find the tar.gz file? I don't have to
>> create one myself do I?
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/8 Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>
>>
>>> 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
>>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Bergström
>> Community Manager
>> www.healthyheroes.se
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>
>


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Community Manager
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