(keitai-l) Re: Emoji munged in mail transport?

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Check it out.  It contains great info, re: emoji. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nik Frengle [mailto:eseller@eimode.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:24 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Emoji munged in mail transport?


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


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