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Strange Emoji failure
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1644964" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>You might want to google your problem and you'll discover that using emojis is not exactly universal.</p><p></p><p>For example, even older articles like this say:</p><p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/" target="_blank">Access and Use Emoji in Mac OS X | OSXDaily</a></p><p></p><p>"<em>You’ll notice that not all third-party applications will accept or recognize Emoji characters, but all of the OS X compatible apps that come from Apple do and most apps updated for Lion & Mountain Lion and beyond should too.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>If the app doesn’t support Emoji display, nothing will be shown, and similarly if an emoji icon is sent to a user who doesn’t have a Mac or iOS device that supports emoji, nothing will be shown for them either, at best it will be a boring old square box instead of the color icon. Keep that in mind if you’re sending messages or posting the emoticons to the web, since a lot of other people using older Macs and Windows machines won’t be able to see them the same way as you do. </em>…"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1644964, member: 175845"] You might want to google your problem and you'll discover that using emojis is not exactly universal. For example, even older articles like this say: [url=http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/]Access and Use Emoji in Mac OS X | OSXDaily[/url] "[I]You’ll notice that not all third-party applications will accept or recognize Emoji characters, but all of the OS X compatible apps that come from Apple do and most apps updated for Lion & Mountain Lion and beyond should too. If the app doesn’t support Emoji display, nothing will be shown, and similarly if an emoji icon is sent to a user who doesn’t have a Mac or iOS device that supports emoji, nothing will be shown for them either, at best it will be a boring old square box instead of the color icon. Keep that in mind if you’re sending messages or posting the emoticons to the web, since a lot of other people using older Macs and Windows machines won’t be able to see them the same way as you do. [/I]…" [/QUOTE]
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