The SMS standard specifies UCS-2 encoding: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/23038.htm
I see many “emoji” have been defined in Unicode 6. But many emoji are outside the BMP, so can’t be encoded in UCS-2. Does anyone know, is the intention that these emoji should be encoded in SMS using UTF-16 rather than UCS-2? Are there any plans in-progress to update the SMS standards to specify UTF-16 rather than UCS-2? Perhaps this question could be added to the Emoji FAQ. http://unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html Regards, Craig McQueen
