Thanks for the quick reply, Nik!
Sorry, I should have said that I'm not trying to display the emoji on a
PC (as you mentioned, Enfour has a product for that) ... rather a setup
such as:
i-Mode phone --> forwarding server --> i-Mode phone
In this path, the emoji each get transformed into the same junk
character, and the receiver simply sees that character where the emoji
should be.
It doesn't make sense because all the forwarding server is doing is
passing along the E-mail with the same text-encoding, etc. tags.
The Y1,000,000 question is therefore:
** "Has anybody successfully received an E-mail with emoji from an
i-Mode phone, on a server outside of DoCoMo?"
That would answer the question of whether I should be looking for
problems in my mail server, or just give up because DoCoMo doesn't send
out emoji codes...
Again, thanks in advance everybody!
Cheers,
Joe
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Nik Frengle wrote:
>
> Joe,
> E-moji are not part of the normal Shift-JIS character set. They reside
> in a 'reserved' part of the character set that is normally empty.
> I-mode
> handsets have characters there, as per NTT DoCoMo's e-moji
> specification
> (http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/tag/emoji/index.html), but
> your Linux or Windows or Mac fonts do not, and I believe that they
> CANNOT use part of the area where e-moji reside, and so I am guessing
> that what happens is that the hex value is checked, found to be
> invalid,
> and printed as-is rather than being converted, which is what is
> supposed
> to happen.
> Tracy from Enfour can probably explain this more correctly than I can,
> and they also have a product called Keitai Font
> (http://www.enfour.co.jp/media/keitaifont/index.html) that allows a
> normal web page with emoji to be displayed on a desktop computer. This
> is for Windows, though, and I am pretty uncertain if it would work with
> your mail client or not.
> Hope this helps,
> Best,
> Nik Frengle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Luk
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:27 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Emoji munged in mail transport?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently started forwarding my DoCoMo mail through a homebrew proxy
> server, which works great ... problem is that the emoji don't come
> through. They all get turned into hex 0x22 0x2e characters somewhere
> in the path.
>
> Anybody have experience with losing and recovering emoji with DoCoMo
> mail? Is it the case that:
>
> - Does DoCoMo simply munge all the emoji when sending to a non-DoCoMo
> destination?
> - Is there something on my mail server that prevets me from receiving
> emoji (anti-spam software perhaps, or the configuration of the
> particular MTA)?
>
> The server runs Linux and otherwise handles Shift-JIS encoded mail just
> fine.
>
> Sorry if this is a FAQ ... couldn't find an answer in the archives
> anywhere.
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers or advice!!
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
Received on Tue Feb 25 11:15:38 2003