Hi, Marko: It's been a long time!
The previous emoji worked fine with *all* my e-mail recipients. I use Gmail only and one account--send from it and receive to it. *~Diane* On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 3:15:04 AM UTC-7, Marko V wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Diane <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Apparently, someone doesn't know the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't >> fix it." The previous emoticons/emoji worked just fine. Not only do I not >> like the new ones, but also some of my recipients are not receiving faces >> and such but, instead, code letters and numbers, e.g., >> * \uD83D\uDE08* While I, the sender, could see the emoticon, that is >> what the receiver saw *and* what appeared in my Sent copy. As far as >> I'm concerned, this feature now is useless! >> > > Actually, the previous Emoji did *not* work fine. They were not > universal. The point of Emoji is to be (mostly) universal so that they > display on a multitude of devices. > See this Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji>. > > Emoji displays fine in my Sent Mail. Are you perhaps using a 3rd party > mail client? > > -- > Marko > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
