Adding emoji characters to a cHTML page


    Emoji characters are picture symbols in the i-mode font set. The glyph, or visual representation of the character, is a picture instead of a letter. Because an emoji is a character, it only takes up two bytes of memory--much less than a tiny GIF image. There are 176 basic emoji characters and 76 extended characters, so you can communicate information very efficiently. In cHTML, emoji are represented by name and category group, by default. You can select one of three methods to insert your emoji entities: Shift JIS Decimal Code, Shift JIS Binary, and Unicode Hexadecimal Code. (Page character encoding must be set to Unicode UTF-8.)

    An emoji entity is comprised of an ampersand, a pound sign followed by 5 digits, and an ending semicolon. For example, the entity &#63647 represents the character "fine" (as in "fine weather"), and looks like a shining sun. Using the ampersand code, you do not need Shift_JIS page encoding when creating content for Roman language sites.

    Note: If users are viewing your site on a computer, they must have the emoji font installed.

To set the emoji settings:

  1. Choose Special > i-mode Emoji Settings.
  2. Select a default method and appearance, and then click OK.
  3. Note: If the emoji characters appear as a question mark in the Layout window, make sure that the Default Method setting for emoji is set correctly.

To add and edit emoji:

  1. Drag the i-mode Emoji icon from the Objects palette to the layout window for a page.
  2. Use the Inspector to add and update the emoji characters.