I have a Galaxy S3 phone from Verizon running Android 4.3. It's not rooted and I haven't installed any Emoji app on it.
My gf likes to send text messages with emoticons from her iPhone and they display on my S3 just fine. And these are really elaborate ones, not just smiley faces. For example I was going to the hospital for some tests and she sent me a SMS to encourage me to not worry and it had an arm making a muscle (like "be strong") and a little kid praying.
How does my Android S3 know how to interpret these? Is there a standard set of emoticon characters or escape sequences that are part of the SMS technical standard?
Thanks in advance.
My gf likes to send text messages with emoticons from her iPhone and they display on my S3 just fine. And these are really elaborate ones, not just smiley faces. For example I was going to the hospital for some tests and she sent me a SMS to encourage me to not worry and it had an arm making a muscle (like "be strong") and a little kid praying.
How does my Android S3 know how to interpret these? Is there a standard set of emoticon characters or escape sequences that are part of the SMS technical standard?
Thanks in advance.