iPhone + Emoji + MacOSX Mail = trouble with encoding

[aforty]

Hey guys.
Have this issue. I will start a email thread on my iPhone an include some emoji icons with it. When I then go to my computer and try to reply to the email (that has the emoji in it) I get this error upon sending:

Invalid Text Encoding
Some characters in your message could not be converted to the “Japanese (Shift JIS)” text encoding. Please choose a different entry from the “Text Encoding” menu.

Seems that the only solution is to manually remove the icons (which show up as boxes in MacOSX) before sending. Anyone have a easier solution that might not require me to go through a 15 replied emails and remove emojis?

 

[gilkisson]

That is interesting. I'll try that right now.

My first thought would be, do you have Japanese language support installed on your Mac, or did you nuke the other languages (like I did) to save some disk space?

 

[philgilder]

computers cannot understand emoji, so there is no point in trying to email using them. they all need to be deleted

 

[PhightinPhils26]

It's to my understanding that iPhone Emoji icons can only be seen on other iPhones.

 

[aforty]

Didn't even know you could fully nuke other languages from the system. Where would I find out? I checked in Preferences --> International but that only appears to be a list of languages supported, which does include Japanese for me.

I get that I'm not going to actually "see" the emoji on my computer, I'm not expecting it to. But I'm not going to stop using them because the other person does use her iPhone all the time and will see them. My only issue is with having to go through the entire email thread every time and delete the emoji before sending. There has got to be a better way.

 

[gilkisson]

Didn't even know you could fully nuke other languages from the system. Where would I find out? I checked in Preferences --> International but that only appears to be a list of languages supported, which does include Japanese for me.

I get that I'm not going to actually "see" the emoji on my computer, I'm not expecting it to. But I'm not going to stop using them because the other person does use her iPhone all the time and will see them. My only issue is with having to go through the entire email thread every time and delete the emoji
before sending. There has got to be a better way.

http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

It doesn't save a ton of space, but it does do a bit...

 

[aforty]

Hmm ok, well I definitely didn't run that beforehand. So I have all languages installed.

 

[gilkisson]

Hmm ok, well I definitely didn't run that beforehand. So I have all languages installed.

Like the Phils up there said -- it's on your phone only. I just tested it myself, got the same results.

 

[Pika]

Try: [app]Emoji Mailer (emoji to desktop Email)[/app]

 

[aforty]

You guys completely missed the point it seems.

The solution was to set the encoding on the message to UTF-8. Problem solved.

 

[gilkisson]

You guys completely missed the point it seems.

The solution was to set the encoding on the message to UTF-8. Problem solved.

Well then, congratulations on solving your problem. As you are the one with the fullest understanding, it's right and proper that you figured it out to your own satisfaction.

Now. How about them RedSox, huh?

 

[aforty]

Well then, congratulations on solving your problem. As you are the one with the fullest understanding, it's right and proper that you figured it out to your own satisfaction.

Now. How about them RedSox, huh?

Thanks 🙂

As for the Redsox, the division is over, better concentrate on the wildcard. 🙄