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 <[email protected]> > 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 > <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >> >>> Good evening, >>> >>> I am just guessing with this advice, btw. >>> >>> On 7 October 2013 15:28, Sebastian Bergström >>> <[email protected]> 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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