Emoticons

[Charles Schwedes]

How can I read and write emoticon codes? Can I access a Unicode string and do something with it? Thanks. Charles 

[Abraham Getzler]

You can copy and paste into text blocks.

See attached screen shot with content 

copied from

http://unicodeemoticons.com/

ABG

[Charles Schwedes]

Abraham,

You have given me great ideas in the past. Thank you!. I'll use this info soon another day. Today I put a number of emoji into a list using my phone. That worked fine but I knew as soon as I reloaded the list it would be gone. Next I tried to export it to my web page and reimport it to find that the lovely emoji were changed into strange character, not Unicode as I had expected. For my texting application I can certainly display emoji but I can't identify any one individually. Thanks again. Charles

[Abraham Getzler]

I should mention a couple of blocks that come along with the Web component

that are useful for encoding and decoding hex strings to and from text.

Web1.HTMLTextDecode will take a hex string and turn it into special characters,

if you precede it with &#x and follow it with ;

(see attached for the construction of a UTF-8 Byte Order Marker example).

Web1.UriEncode can provide a hex view of an otherwise
unreadable string.

And finally, AI2 works in UTF-8, and not all Unicode code pages might

be available in your Android device, emulator, web browser, etc.

ABG