On 9/01/2016 1:07 AM, Philip Chee wrote:
On 06/01/2016 14:49, Daniel wrote:
On 6/01/2016 4:10 AM, Philip Chee wrote:
On 05/01/2016 21:59, Rick Merrill wrote:
My observation is that emoji are fancy pants emoticons - what am
I missing?
Emoji: If you have a font that has support for emoji - say Segoe
UI Symbol. They will show up automatically.
Emoticon: The mail user agent (SeaMonkey/Thunderbird) has built in
recognition for certain ASCII strings which it will replace with
an image stored in the current theme.
Phil
Phil, could it be that emoji are single character symbols, whereas
emoticon are multi-characters combinations which produce a symbol??
Emoticons are multi ASCII character combinations. Some Mail User Agents
(Like SeaMonkey) can recognize these and replace them with graphics. The
list of strings the MailNews code (shared with Thunderbird) is hard
coded and can't be extended - without fiddling with the code.
Emoji support just involves installing a font that has support for the
Unicode code points that are mapped to emoji. For example
Segoe-UI-Symbol or Symbola. As far as the Mail User Agent is concerned
emoji are just UTF-8 characters. Support for newer emoji involves just
installing a newer version of the font to the OS.
Phil
Thanks, Phil.
--
Daniel
Happy Holiday Season to one and all.
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.39 Build identifier: 20151028234211
or
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.38 Build identifier: 20150903203501
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