Path: ...!news.tomockey.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Additional emojis Date: 14 May 2025 11:30:53 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 28 Message-ID: <10025u7.1a58.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> References: <10002t1$1vm9m$1@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net 5IOmgLrmPR+9mFjLWLoPbgU7ZxU2ALNEA4Vyh78wjM/+c/D7lI X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:1ulEA7T5NjVdJq165XzJvHQ6CKA= sha256:2gbZhLLFtwP1lKHk3FTTomGub92iw+FShHyViBR40XQ= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2009 Woody 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.