Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Clifton
I’m sure this is old hat to many, but I’ve just seen my first block 1F600 emoticon used “for real” in an email. The character was U+1F61E DISAPPOINTED FACE, from the context I believe this had been deliberately chosen by the email’s author, not a mistake. Unfortunately, as the email was relayed

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Everson
On 26 Jul 2012, at 09:56, Ian Clifton wrote: I’m sure this is old hat to many, but I’ve just seen my first block 1F600 emoticon used “for real” in an email. You're welcome. :-) The character was U+1F61E DISAPPOINTED FACE, from the context I believe this had been deliberately chosen by the

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Andre Schappo
Not emoticon but ……. I received an email from Email Insider. Email was written as E✉ail ✉ being U+2079 I thought it quite clever André On 2012/07/26, at 9:56, Ian Clifton wrote: I’m sure this is old hat to many, but I’ve just seen my first block 1F600 emoticon used “for real” in an email.

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Philippe Verdy
2012/7/26 Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com: Hm. I note that Everson Mono does not have glyphs for these yet (as I cannot see them in your mail. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ Have you solved your past problem of limits with your font editor tool (Fontographer ?) or are you

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-26 13:04, Andre Schappo kirjoitti: Not emoticon but ……. I received an email from Email Insider. Email was written as E✉ail ✉ being U+2079 I thought it quite clever U+2079 is SUPERSCRIPT NINE “⁹”. I suppose you meant U+2709 ENVELOPE “✉”, an old (Unicode 1.0.0) dingbat (which now

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

2012-07-26 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/26/2012 3:50 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2012-07-26 13:04, Andre Schappo kirjoitti: Not emoticon but ……. I received an email from Email Insider. Email was written as E✉ail ✉ being U+2079 I thought it quite clever U+2079 is SUPERSCRIPT NINE “⁹”. I suppose you meant U+2709 ENVELOPE