>> The "tel" tag and accesskey stuff may well be an extension of a
>> standard, but surely emoji are more akin to an extension to a font set
>> rather than a tag extension as such...
>>
>> As such, is the "internet standards" issue really relevant?
>
> It's more a character set issue (*) than a font set issue, and that is one
> thing that makes it more complicated. We predict a wider use of sending
> emails between computers and phones in Europe and the US than what is
> currently done in Japan, and then the emoji is a bit of a problem. But as
> marketing tool with viral effects, like Nokia's image SMS etc., they may
> probably be quite interesting as a weapon against SMS.
>
> /gustaf
>
> * since it is not part of either ShiftJIS 6879 or any of the western ISO
> 8859 character sets which is part of teh MIME standard, I do see this as a
> fairly heavy standard issue.
I agree this is a potentially serious problem. We already see issues with
Micrsoft's non-standard "ISO-8859" character set.
Eric Hildum
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Received on Fri Feb 16 04:10:46 2001