Script Summary: Makes Emoji (絵文字, a.k.a. pictograms/emoticons) encoded in the Unicode Private Use Area according to SoftBank's scheme viewable in Firefox.
This script makes Emoji (絵文字, a.k.a. pictograms/emoticons) encoded in the Unicode Private Use Area according to SoftBank's scheme viewable in Firefox. It also handles the correspinding extended Shift-JIS codes. The icons inserted are copyrighted and hosted by SoftBank and are apparently free for personal, non-commercial use.
NOTE: The author of this script is in no way associated with SoftBank, and any trademarks referenced herein remain the sole property of their owners.
This script was based on @photar's iPhone Emoji Reader script. While the first of Apple's iPhones sold in Japan apparently use the SoftBank encoding for Emoji, the encoding will not match across carriers until Emoji get standardized, which could take a few years. In the meantime, I discourage their use but provide this script to allow interoperability from non-SoftBank devices when e.g. people tweet emoji/絵文字.
Here's a simple test of SoftBank Emoji: I,& (Standard Unicode equivalents: I❤☕,☔&♨❢)
So far this has been confirmed to work in Firefox with GreaseMonkey and in Safari with GreaseKit. It does not work in Opera, apparently due to some sort of XPath length limit in document.evaluate().
See also:
- Description of SoftBank/Vodaphone Emoji
- Summary of iPhone Emoji support, including screenshots
- Longer-term, a proposal for Unicode Emoji standardization
- Apple prevents use of this feature outside the SoftBank network
- A nice overview of the iPhone/SoftBank emoji situation (includes all of them!)
“Give me , or give me ” — Patrick Henry, 1775-03-23
