[gentoo-user] Re: OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:


> Stroller.

> [1]
http://thommck.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/youve-got-emoji-smilie-characters-discovered-in-a-font/
> [2] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
> [3] https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/tree/master/data/fonts
> [4]
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/jelly-bean-emoji-font-on-ice-cream-sandwich/
> [5] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879056


You and others have given me much to consider.
I've read about too many issues with version 10 of TB.
So before I can continue this emoticon solution-quest,
I must first complete some (many) network upgrades
and systems upgrades (way far behind on these projects).


What I'm really (eventually) after is a way to send
a custom emoticon, tied to a specific trirgger.
For example, every hour, I'd like to send a measured
temperature from a remote linux system to the mail
box on another system, that looks like a hollow
emoticon (empty sphere) with these characters inside of
it:

72F

meaning the cpu temperature on this system is 72 degrees F.
Think of it a simple graphical email, via expanded emoticons?


In an ideal world, I'd like to auto-magically support
billions of (custom) emoticons....The reality is I'll settle 
for an easy to admin, simple subset...... for now (after
some routine admin catchup)......



James