Interviewed by CNN on 21/03/2012 08:19, Philip Chee told the world: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:19:36 -0300, MCBastos wrote: > >> Yes, Windows and Macs usually do have this font installed. So what? This >> is no longer a Windows-only world. For instance, AFAIK Android phones >> and tablets don't come with a Wingdings-compatible font. Same, I think, >> for Blackberries. > > But Androids and iOS do come with Emoji compatible fonts. > > Phil (insert emoji for laughing cat here) >
Interesting, I had to look that up. From what I read, I understand that emoji have been incorporated into Unicode 6. I didn't find out if the ios and android implementations use Unicode or the older Japanese encoding. BUT, even under the Japanese encoding, it should be possible to unambigously encode emoji in messages/HTML by simply specifying the correct code page, making it possible to use any font that includes the emoji character range for rendering. Not so with Wingdings, which don't have their own codepages -- they mostly replace glyphs on the standard Western European codepages with custom glyphs. The different versions of Wingdings each use the same codepoint for different glyphs, even. The only way to get the correct glyph is to select a specific font. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my HAL 9000. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.8 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
