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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Additional emojis
Date: 14 May 2025 11:30:53 GMT
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Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Mon 12/05/2025 19:22, Andy Burns wrote:
> > Pamela wrote:
> > 
> >> Is there a way to install additional emojis, without replacing the
> >> standard Android keyboard or having a new app running in the
> >> background?
> > 
> > Additional emoji are generally added by android updates after they've 
> > been added to unicode
> > 
> >> I sometimes use emojis in messages, but those which came with my phone
> >> are too limited and many seem chosen for school children.
> > 
> > If you go "adding your own" how do you know your recipient is likely to 
> > have them at the other end?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Don't forget that adding an emoji to a text message makes the whole 
> message be sent in double rate, i.e. you only get 80 characters instead 
> of 160.

  That may be so, but Pamela only mentioned "messages", not SMS ('text')
messages per se. So these "messages" might be - and probably are - any
*other* (non-SMS) kind of messages, especially as Pamela (cross)posted
to a UK group. In the non-US/NA world, sending SMS messages is quite
uncommon since many years.