Apple and Google Propose Standardized Encoding for… Emoji!
Love them or hate them, miracle or menace, Emoji are standard message elements in Japan and have caught some favor among internet iPhone users (and TiPb Forum staff…)
The problem, however, is that there’s currently no standard way to encode the little mega-smileys across different carriers and platforms, leading to a lot of “translation” work in between. The solution?
engineers from Google and Apple have got together to try to propose an encoding for these emoji (they have identified 674 of them!) that can be added to the official standard ISO/IEC 10646, as can be seen in this document, Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols.
Maybe next Apple could work on not requiring complex, app-bound Emoji activation processes for non-Japanese iPhones? Sumo, tiny red cars, and weirdly smiling brown piles for everyone!
[Via What Japan Thinks, thanks Georgia for the tip!]
June 29th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Rene! I have a request
Can you make a profile for us commenters, so we can follow our comments? That would be a great feature!
June 29th, 2009 at 7:00 am
2nd that!
BTW, I’m in a love/hate relationship with Emoji.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:36 am
How about tying our logins with our usernames on the forums? I don’t understand why it can’t be all linked anyway.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:28 am
I love me some Emoji although i do have one gripe. Whenever i use an emoticon it gets rid of auto correction. Anyone else have this problem?
June 29th, 2009 at 8:46 am
June 29th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I love emoji!
June 29th, 2009 at 9:19 am
June 29th, 2009 at 9:38 am
= my favorite emoji
June 29th, 2009 at 11:08 am
emoji
June 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
so they are trynna make so that noniphone users can view emojis as well? its about time!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I think that skype emocations are best.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
At times I am sorry I jailbroke and installed the emoji hack for one friend. Every message he sends has at least one emoji. Most messages are made up of nothing but emoji.
But I still feel emoji are the