On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > > 絵文字？ > Come to think of it, have you looked at the emoji page on wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little >> rectangular boxes with "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling >> suggests these are thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get >> these to display? >> > > If you are talking about the Japanese e-moji, well, frankly, I've been > tending to ignore them as substitute for the constructed emoticons like 8-*. > > (Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of >> random things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of font, >> what do i type? "01f 1e7 codepoint" or "01f 1e7 unicode" don't work.) >> > > You might want to ask on the Japanese user list. If my brain kicks into > gear, I may recall where they are defined and who has charge of them, > beyond that they are mostly proprietary extensions of the JIS character > space. It does seem like I recently read that some of them have been > brought into the unicode set, so you might want to nose around in > unicode.org's pages. > And, in fact, the wikipedia page I pointed at above has links to the ones that have been adopted into the Unicode standard. > But, of course, not all those rectangular character substitutions are > going to be e-moji. In fact, hardly any of them are, statistically > speaking. > -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.
