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  • Re: Additional emojis

    From Julian Macassey@julian@n6are.com to uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android on Wed Oct 29 13:42:35 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

    On Tue, 13 May 2025 17:00:45 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 12 May 2025 19:18:49 +0100, Pamela
    <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

    Is there a way to install additional emojis, without replacing the >>standard Android keyboard or having a new app running in the
    background?

    I sometimes use emojis in messages, but those which came with my phone
    are too limited and many seem chosen for school children.

    Hey, what's wrong with that?

    Emojis are for the subliterate. They seem to have a
    meaning to the sender, but is that meaning `agreed by the recipient?

    If you have something to say, use language not pictures.
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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android on Wed Oct 29 22:32:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

    On 2025-05-16 10:52, Pamela wrote:
    On 07:49 16 May 2025, Andy Burns said:
    Pamela wrote:

    Isn't the emoji sent along with the message text, perhaps as a
    bitmap image?

    Are all letter "A"s sent along as a bitmap?

    Of course letter A's are sent as a character code, with the glyph being created locally.

    By contrast, emojis are miniature graphics which I thought were sent as embedded low-res bitmaps, perhaps similar to colour fonts in CBDT.
    Seems not.

    So if emojis are generated locally then all the more reason not to use
    them. I already get lost amongst the subtle differences between
    smileys, and additional local variation would make them more ambiguous in some conversations.

    It is a standard, they are characters in unicode.

    <https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html>

    Some of them, sent here: 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃🫠😉
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