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Why doesn't Thunderbird incorporate the expanded set of emojis?

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Emojis are so common now as keyboard options on smartphones that it makes Thunderbird look antique in offering only a dozen smileys. I don't even find anything useful when searching Mozilla for "emojis." Am I missing something?

Emojis are so common now as keyboard options on smartphones that it makes Thunderbird look antique in offering only a dozen smileys. I don't even find anything useful when searching Mozilla for "emojis." Am I missing something?
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You sure are missing something. Those inbuilt smiles are transmitted as text so :) is what will actually be in the email, not a picture. It is up to the receiving email program to interpret these archaic test smilies as something that requires an image. Thunderbird does.

Outlook.com does not.

Gmail does not. I have no idea about other providers.

That is why people have created add-ons.

Like these two. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emojiaddin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emoji-menu/

I am sure one of those two will do the job for you.

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You sure are missing something. Those inbuilt smiles are transmitted as text so :) is what will actually be in the email, not a picture. It is up to the receiving email program to interpret these archaic test smilies as something that requires an image. Thunderbird does.

Outlook.com does not.

Gmail does not. I have no idea about other providers.

That is why people have created add-ons.

Like these two. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emojiaddin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emoji-menu/

I am sure one of those two will do the job for you.

almagary
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Thanks, Matt. I do note that the two add-ons you list are not signed by Mozilla and installation requires the user to change the configuration. http://mzl.la/1J7Lcsp I'm trying out one you didn't mention, Emoji Keyboard, but it's not integrated with FF and TB. I'm looking forward to tech catching up with consumer demand, and seeing emoji add-ons getting both approved and improved.  :)