[gentoo-user] OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

[gentoo-user] OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

[James]

Hello,

I can display the basic emoticons when I receive them
in email via thunderbird. 

Many of the newer, more sophisticated emoticons
only show the raw ascii characters. [1]

Fixes for thunderbird (10.0.11) and suggestions are most welcome,
as I cannot upgrade thunderbird at this time.....


tia,
James

[1]  http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/ascii_list.php 

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

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can display the basic emoticons when I receive them
> in email via thunderbird.
>
> Many of the newer, more sophisticated emoticons
> only show the raw ascii characters. [1]
>
> Fixes for thunderbird (10.0.11) and suggestions are most welcome,
> as I cannot upgrade thunderbird at this time.....

I haven't tried it but this was the first Google result:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Add_emoticons

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

[James]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:


> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Add_emoticons


I'm going to upgrade TB then fix the emoticons....


thx.

James

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

[Stroller]

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On 22 April 2013, at 15:51, James wrote:
> ...
> Many of the newer, more sophisticated emoticons
> only show the raw ascii characters. [1]
> ...
> [1]  http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/ascii_list.php 

Are you sure that there are graphical equivalents for all the emoticons on that list?

I would only expect to understand a fraction of those, myself.

I think you should just try to find fonts for all the unicode and emoji characters.

On my Mac, all the characters show up in the table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)

And it looks like all but 4 of these ones do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_And_Pictographs_(Unicode_block)

That is to say that I can take the icons of a hamburger, ghost or crying cat and copy and paste them into a *pain text* document or email (and they'll display ok). 🍔 👻 😿

It looks like you might be able to use the Segoe UI font if you have a recent version of Windows installed [1], Sybola (right hand side on this page [2]), or some Android fonts that provide these characters [3] [4] [5].

Whilst I would probably just avoid non-standard emoticons myself, this solution seems better than sending HTML emails, which appears to be required by the other suggestion (installing Thunderbird the Smilie Inserter. Here, these characters even display in the terminal emulator (see attached screenshot). 

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



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

[James]

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

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

[Stroller]

On 24 April 2013, at 15:10, James wrote:
> ...
> 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?

My immediate reaction to this is to suggest creating a PDF. My mail client shows PDFs inline, so this would display quite nicely. You could create the circle using Postscript, then dump the postscript document to PDF; PDFs allow arbitrary paper sizes.

Alternatively, you could draw this as a gif or png using imagemagick or something. The imagemagick examples explain how to draw circles:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#circles

Stroller.

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

[James]

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


> My immediate reaction to this is to suggest creating a PDF. My 
> mail client shows PDFs inline, so this would
> display quite nicely. You could create the circle using Postscript, 
> then dump the postscript document to > PDF; PDFs allow arbitrary paper 
> sizes.

Interesting idea.

> Alternatively, you could draw this as a gif or png using imagemagick or
something. The imagemagick examples explain how to draw circles:
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#circles


I'll experiment on these and some.
thanks for your help and input.

thx,
James