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how do you get emoticons that non iphone users can view?(not emoji)

Thatguy111#IM

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is there a way to get emoticons on an iphone that for example a blackberry can view. i do not want emoji because i already have that i want text smiley emoticons. i there anyway to do this, or is there a possible jailbreak tweak for this?
 

Gary Mazo

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Unfortunately those symbols are proprietary system-specific extensions and are not compatible with other non-BB OS-based systems.

The closest to a worldwide standard would be Emoji, although there's 3 different variants of those as well. iPhone implements the Softbank version. KDDI and DoCoMo have their own (incompatible) variants.

http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoj.../emojidata.pdf

As of now, BlackBerrys and iPhones just don't talk nice to each other - maybe with BB 10!
 

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Unfortunately those symbols are proprietary system-specific extensions and are not compatible with other non-BB OS-based systems.

The closest to a worldwide standard would be Emoji, although there's 3 different variants of those as well. iPhone implements the Softbank version. KDDI and DoCoMo have their own (incompatible) variants.

http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoj.../emojidata.pdf

As of now, BlackBerrys and iPhones just don't talk nice to each other - maybe with BB 10!

Poop! That's one of the reasons I left the BB world. I haven't looked back since except to laugh and remember how frustrated I was...
 

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