Love them or dislike them, miracle or menace, Emoji are accepted communication elements in Nihon and hit caught whatever souvenir among internet iPhone users (and TiPb Forum staff…)

The problem, however, is that there’s currently no accepted artefact to cypher the lowercase mega-smileys crossways assorted carriers and platforms, directive to a aggregation of “translation” impact in between. The solution?

engineers from Google and Apple hit got unitedly to essay to declare an coding for these emoji (they hit identified 674 of them!) that crapper be additional to the authorised accepted ISO/IEC 10646, as crapper be seen in this document, Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols.

Maybe incoming Apple could impact on not requiring complex, app-bound Emoji activation processes for non-Japanese iPhones? Sumo, tiny flushed cars, and weirdly grinning brown piles for everyone!

[Via What Nihon Thinks, thanks Colony for the tip!]

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Apple and Google Propose Standardized Encoding for… Emoji!