Talk:Emoji
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Does this term also cover kaomoji, or just predefined single-character symbols? — Gwalla | Talk 04:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted to add to the discussion page that Vodafone has been taken over by SoftBank and is marketed at SoftBank. Perhaps this article should be updated to use "SoftBank" instead of Vodafone or at the very least update the website links to point to SoftBank instead of vodafone?--220.12.252.13 06:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Done. --Aaronsharpe 23:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Example?
I don't really get it... so could maybe someone put some examples in the article? Secunda1 02:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Emoji are Japan-only
As far as I know emoji are a Japan-only phenomenon, so no, this article does not need to be "globalized" or have its title changed. Jpatokal (talk) 05:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- Not quite. If you read the Japanese version of wiki, it specifies these characters as a type of 'emoji' used by mobile phone service carriers. In the detailed segment, it described them as a form of OEM character set. OEM character sets have been around since vendor trying to extend ASCII, so it is an old concept in a new application. Who's to say that phone companies in other regions don't implement some kind of OEM charcter sets, just like how they convert the emoticons into icons? In fact, in the case of Windows Mobile, it may already have a mobile version of Marlett. Even if the application is localized, the underneath technology is not. Furthermore, the Japanese emoji wiki belong to another article that describes it as pictogram, so there is no point of throwing in foreign terms that only serve to obfuscate meanings, especially the 'emoji' title in the English wiki is a mistranslation. Jacob Poon 17:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacob Poon (talk • contribs)
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- I work on telco, and I don't know of any countries outside Japan where phones come with built-in OEM character sets. Most of the world outside Japan uses the GSM charset, ISO 8859-1 (Latin1), ASCII, or local language codepages (formerly ISO 8859-X, these days usually Unicode), with no operator-specific customization. The Japanese article you cite also covers only Japanese operators, so I think the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that emoji exist outside Japan.
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- Quite frankly, I don't really understand your argument. The encoding of emoji is a highly technical topic of interest only to the few of us working in this field, just like nobody outside IT gives a rat's ass about EUC-JP, Shift-JIS, etc. But "emoji" is a clear, agreed-upon and unambiguous name for it, so I don't see what is being obfuscated here. Jpatokal (talk) 03:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
