Why is it that on different phone’s, some emojis do not show? Shouldn’t it just register as text?
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Emojis aren’t the same thing as emoticons like this –> 🙂
To a computer, an emoji isn’t a collection of repurposed characters, but rather a single character in its own right (meaning it gets its own number on the unicode table and everything).
If a computer (or phone, whatever) doesn’t have a graphic related to that specific emoji’s unicode number, then it’s not going to be able to display it. Depending on the software it may have a placeholder graphic like a square or a stylized “?” or something, or it may just not show anything at all.
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