Sounds to me like the recipient's email program is breaking the emojis. Not Gmail's fault.
On Thursday, 2 July 2015 05:30:51 UTC+2, Diane wrote: > > I am sending this with the dim hope it will help shed more light. To be > clear, the emoji show correctly on my composing screen and Sent copy. When > my (AOL) friend replies, that is when my emoji change to letters and > numbers. Here is another example that was in my friend's reply; the > wording is all mine and was included in the reply: Also, \uD83D\uDC47. > (Here I have a finger pointing downward for you to see further comments > below in bold.) > > On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 5:44:16 PM UTC-7, Diane wrote: >> >> 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]> 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.
