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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: IOS v. 17.4
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 10:55:01 -0000 (UTC)
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Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2024-03-08 06:06, Wilf wrote:
>> On 07/03/2024 at 22:49, Alan Browne wrote:
>>> On 2024-03-07 04:08, Wilf wrote:
>>>> On 06/03/2024 at 20:36, Cameo wrote:
>>>>> I've just got my iPhone 15 Pro Max updated to iOS 17.4, but on the
>>>>> surface I don't see any changes. Maybe they are deeper.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm really excited about the lime emoji ;)
>>> 
>>> Where this falls apart:
>>> 
>>> I just sent a "lime" emoji as a test.  It shows up on my iMac (up to
>>> date OS) as a lemon with a green square to the right.
>>> 
>>> Since my SO (recipient of the test) has an iPhone 7, she won't get the
>>> lime emoji either.
>>> 
>> 
>> I was joking about the lime emoji, but seriously surprised that it 
>> doesn't get rendered properly on older machines.  I wonder how it will 
>> look on Android phones?   How do any Apple emojis look on other machines?
> 
> Emoji's are not transmitted as an image but as a code.  (Same as 
> characters - the computer has to generate the font to be seen.  And this 
> turns into a whole "thing" of its own with various fonts and extended 
> character sets and the saving grace of Unicode (UTF-8, etc)...).
> 
> Emoji's were a defacto thing when they first emerged.  As such the code 
> for an emoji could render something unrelated on a different device it 
> it didn't adhere to the same "standard".
> 
> Eventually Emoji's were taken into Unicode.  Yep.  There is a committee 
> that manages the codes and what they're supposed to represent.  Apple is 
> a member of Unicode as are the usual suspects and many more.
> 
> But, each co. (Apple, etc.) has to come up with scalable graphics for 
> each code for their own OS'.  And then distribute that amongst it's OS 
> versions.  Retro fitting this is practical only to the depth of standard 
> support.  To boot, companies revise their emoji's over time (improve the 
> graphic somehow or add variation.

Yep. For example the gun emoji 🔫 was changed to a water pistol on Apple
devices from an actual handgun. 

> So to your last question, how the Apple sent emoji looks on, say, an 
> Android phone, is up to the Android OS that receives the emoji.
>