I too received the intended emoji via direct email but I see the garbled characters in the web interface:
ヽ(￣д￣;)ノ - worried ヾ(＠゜▽゜＠）ノ - happy ヽ(#`Д´)ノ - angry 【・_・?】- confused I believe there is an encoding issue somewhere in the unicode.org/mail-archtoolchain. On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > But then why did I these emoticons (using "ASCII art" with additional CJK > characters) correctly from the same mailing list ? > I did not see any dot, or squares for PUA, but the stars, triangle and > some kanas. > > I don't think that the mailing list itself is broken (or may be Gmail > corrected things after). > > You cannot always predict the encoding used by the effective sending > mailing agent (or the first reaying agent). Even Gmail will try to fit the > "best" (popular) legacy 8-bit encoding according to content and the > recipient (where it will try to geolocalize the target domain name, or use > its own knowledge of the languages and encodings most often used by senders > in that domain), instead of always sending with UTF-8, when the default > user settings are for using a "default" encoding if the user had not > specified that the mail would be forced to UTF-8. > > > > > 2014-04-03 5:18 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > > It's really quite simple: Sending e-mails in ISO-2022-JP to the Unicode >> mailing list causes problems. >> >> 😸 >> >> >> -- >> Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA >> http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell >> ------------------------------ >> From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> >> Sent: 4/2/2014 20:51 >> To: Doug Ewell <[email protected]> >> Cc: Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]>; Unicode Mailing >> List<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Emoji [And crash in the Web interface to the mailing list] >> >> There was no such browser bug in my Chrome install GChrome (in >> Gmail)which rendered the full string correctly (no dots, all characters >> displayed properly). >> >> So this looks like a Firefox bug. There's a rendering problem in IE, but >> no such critical bug that breaks the rest of the page. It looks like a >> problem of transcoding of emails by browsers (in Gmail, the transcoding to >> UTF-8 is performed apparently by the web server, so Firefox does not break >> when rendering the Gmail page). >> >> It is posible that what is really broken is in fact another webmail >> interface that incorrectly transcodes the email to UTF-8. I cannot know if >> the broken rendering was performed on everyone's client, if he use a >> webmail or standalone email agent. Many webmail services are broken in how >> they transcode the mails received in order to embed its content in a UTF-8 >> web page. >> >> 2014-04-02 22:31 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Sorry, this was my mistake. IE8 on Windows 7 displayed James's "angry" >>> line like this: >>> >>> ヾ(＠゜・・・・逅察・・縫吏・€ｫ€趁占ｺ碣€ｭ処腫徐ぢヽ(#`Д´)ノ >>> - angry >>> >>> The only "private-use" character was something that got transcoded to >>> U+E559, and IE8 displayed that as a space, not a dot. But a quick look >>> at the ISO-2022-JP source shows this isn't right at all. So I guess I >>> did have trouble viewing it, maybe not a crash, but severe mojibake. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > >
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