On 06/01/2016 14:49, Daniel wrote: > On 6/01/2016 4:10 AM, Philip Chee wrote: >> On 05/01/2016 21:59, Rick Merrill wrote: >> >>> My observation is that emoji are fancy pants emoticons - what am >>> I missing? >> >> Emoji: If you have a font that has support for emoji - say Segoe >> UI Symbol. They will show up automatically. >> >> Emoticon: The mail user agent (SeaMonkey/Thunderbird) has built in >> recognition for certain ASCII strings which it will replace with >> an image stored in the current theme. >> >> Phil >> > Phil, could it be that emoji are single character symbols, whereas > emoticon are multi-characters combinations which produce a symbol??
Emoticons are multi ASCII character combinations. Some Mail User Agents (Like SeaMonkey) can recognize these and replace them with graphics. The list of strings the MailNews code (shared with Thunderbird) is hard coded and can't be extended - without fiddling with the code. Emoji support just involves installing a font that has support for the Unicode code points that are mapped to emoji. For example Segoe-UI-Symbol or Symbola. As far as the Mail User Agent is concerned emoji are just UTF-8 characters. Support for newer emoji involves just installing a newer version of the font to the OS. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
