{"id":1235,"date":"2008-10-24T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2008-10-24T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:42:21","slug":"gmail-supports-emoji-for-japanese-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/gmail-supports-emoji-for-japanese-cellphone\/","title":{"rendered":"GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official Google Blog (Japanese) <a href=\"http:\/\/googlejapan.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/gmail.html\">announced<\/a> [J] that their gmail on PC now became capable to send Emoji, emoticon-like letters supported by Japanese cellphones. (receiving emoji-mail from cellphone has been supported already.)<br \/>\nEven in English mode of gmail, your &#8220;Rich formatting&#8221; mode has a new set of emoji selector.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gmail-emoji-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gmail-emoji-screenshot-400x222.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gmail-emoji-screenshot\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1234\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI sent a mail with emoji-s from my gmail to cellphone. Most emoji are shown properly, though few letters are not. Maybe because emoji sets have few incompatibility among 3 carriers (NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/received-emoji-from-gmail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/received-emoji-from-gmail-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"received-emoji-from-gmail\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1236\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen the recipient have Japanese cellphone, Google server converts them into emoji character codes. On regular mail client including gmail, the mail with emoji seems to be sent as a HTML mail with images.<br \/>\nIt is explained that this new feature was lead by Google Tokyo team but worked globally.<br \/>\n[Update] The official English Gmail Blog followed to <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html\">announce<\/a>. Interestingly, there are no mention that the idea was from Google Japan (as Google Japan team <a href=\"http:\/\/googlejapan.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/gmail.html\">claimed<\/a> [J]), nor it was for Japanese mobile users. So it is explained &#8220;to help you communicate&#8221; for the rest of non-emoji world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Google Blog (Japanese) announced [J] that their gmail on PC now became capable to send Emoji, emoticon-like letters supported by Japanese cellphones. (receiving emoji-mail from cellphone has been supported already.) Even in English mode of gmail, your &#8220;Rich formatting&#8221; mode has a new set of emoji selector. I sent a mail with emoji-s from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/gmail-supports-emoji-for-japanese-cellphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[1063,1380,1401],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-emoji","tag-gmail","tag-google","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}