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iPhone Application Development: Built in applications enhanced

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They are part of the font set. called Emoji icons.

Apple's latest iPhone OS update brought cute little "Emoji" icons for Asian markets

To use them you need to use the (font) character code for each letter / emoji. I don't know what they are, but a quick google returns, abide a lot of spam, some codes worth trying. A quick script could be made to incrementally loop through each character code, thus finding them all.

A quick google:

&#xe001;
&#xe002;
&#xe003;
&#xe004;
&#xe005;
&#xe006;

Ross 2010-01-07 11:36:52

Note that Apple banned applications which enabled Emoji back in March, but some appear to have slipped back into the store: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/04/iphone_emoji_apps_back_in_app_store_someone_probably_rejoices-2/ . Relying on this functionality in your application would probably be a little risky.

Brad Larson 2010-01-07 17:00:40

@Brad Larson, thanks for sharing this news.I'm not actually interested in incorporating this, I'm just wondering how the developer must have done that? Though some undocumented API, maybe?@Ross, I believe the entity representation of all those Emoji icons are in Japanese language, even for simple one's like : ) and : (. And, it makes sense if iPhone OS support this. But apparently, it doesn't come built in. Emoji application is available on the App Store, and installing this adds this new panel to the default keyboard.

Mustafa 2010-01-09 07:18:11

@Ross: `...;` instead of `ex...;`.

KennyTM 2010-01-21 11:04:16

@KennyTM: Thanks, I've updated my answer. Like the fact there characters have to marked up as code.

Ross 2010-02-04 20:28:14

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