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Is there a specific font or something I need to install/download/configure in order to see emoji characters? Emoji are picture characters/emoticons often used in Japanese webpages and messages. People can post these from their phones to a site like Twitter, but when I try to read them on my PC (running Windows 7) it doesn't know how to display them. If there's a reason I can't display them on my machine, is there a reason why not? They're part of unicode, after all.
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You need a font that supports the new characters. I guess there will be an update to Windows 7 that included such a font. Alternatively you can install a font that includes the characters, for instance "Symbola" by George Douros: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/. You can then finally see the cat "🐈" and the monkey face "🐵"! | |||
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I think many new emoji were added in Unicode 6, which came out a month ago. So probably there is not much use of the standard code points at the moment, nor fonts that support them. The existing situation, I think, has different carriers using different code points in the Unicode Private Use Area or using Shift-JIS as per Wikipedia, so unless you had a font that matched what the phone had, you would not be able to display the characters. | |||
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