Got a question for you emoji-lovin' peeps
 

So, in a totally (not) top secret conversation between [redacted] and [redacted], the topic of emojis came up. Sometimes, they show up as a box with numbers. Or just an empty box.

Are y'all using some high tech gizmo? Or could it be that one's computer needs some special font/program downloaded to make it easy to view?

http://i.imgur.com/3S3VMPu.png?1
^ This is what one emoji should look like. Yet, it might appear as this to others:
http://www.blastmedia.com/wp-content....59.39-AM2.png

I've never seen that before. I can see emotes on all my different devices.

I know that sometimes the apple emojis can't be seen on android or htc devices, because they aren't compatible.
But whenever I'm using my computer I can always see emojis of any kind. I've never really encountered the empty box thing :P

Are you using text characters (like ｡◕‿◕｡) or images?

It's about like the box of smilies we can use on here. Though it doesn't show up as [ smilie ] but as the image. So... I guess it's images?

It makes sense that there would be things that aren't compatible between the different systems.

I've noticed that out also depends on what version of a system the phone is running. My parents both have android phones. As do I, but the emotes we send don't always match up or get through entirely. I don't get the empty boxes though, just a series of question marks.

I sometimes see boxes with text characters because I don't have the necessary font installed on my computer, but that doesn't happen very often.

I've never gotten a box with picture emoji before though. I don't generally use emoji that are system specific though, if I can avoid it. Like google will automatically convert my text emotes into their emoji images, and it drives me freaking nuts. But that's a different conversation. [lol]

The box thing happen if a smilie is more advanced than the device trying to view it, ne? Happens a lot on my phone. Japanese or chinese charaters? Boxes. Emojis? Boxes.
[headdesk]

I know that before I got my smart phone, and a friend of mine would try to send me emojis and non-regular text fonts etc... I'd just get a line of boxes, but now that I have my smart phone, that rarely ever happens anymore.