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1. #OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES UPDATE#
2. #OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES ANDROID#
3. #OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES SOFTWARE#
4. #OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES CODE#

#OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES CODE#

In an Outlook HTML message, it’s standard code with the ‘Segoe UI Emoji’ font declaredĪs you can see from the iPhone image above, Apple substitutes the Segoe UI Emoji font with another font which also has emoji. That’s because Word is now using the Segoe UI Emoji font which has color versions of the main emoji characters.ĭig into the Word document and you’ll see the symbol is inserted directly with some additional XML with font and character code directions. The smiley face used in the new Outlook/Word is the standard Unicode value for that symbol – 1F60A known as ‘Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes’.īut unlike the Insert Symbol dialog, the updated symbol is in color. The smiley is saved as a true emoji, using the standard Unicode system. We had to dig into the guts of a Word document to see how the new smiley face is being coded. What has changed with the new, compatible and color emoji? Redmond uses all sorts of tricks, large and small, to encourage customers to stick with them. Making it only work properly for receivers with Microsoft products suited the corporate strategy. Something that would look good in demonstrations but wasn’t compatible with non-Windows devices. The font is supplied with Office for Mac.Īt the time Microsoft wasn’t prepared to properly support emoji so they went for a quick fix.

#OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES ANDROID#

Wingdings is a Microsoft font, you won’t find it on Apple or Android devices.

#OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES SOFTWARE#

If software doesn’t recognize the font and can’t find an equivalent, it displays the character using plain text instead. Many people saw a letter J instead of the smiley because ASCII code 74 is the capital J. Microsoft converted the 🙂 text into a symbol from the Wingdings font (number 74). Emoji in past Outlook’s aka the mysterious Jįor many years Outlook/Word had a shortcut to convert text into a smiley face.īut it wasn’t a true emoji symbol that all devices would display as a smiling face. Redmond doesn’t boast about the change because they know it would draw attention to the problem and the years it took before fixing it. This is pretty standard Microsoft practice when fixing a long standing bug or problem. As with all feature updates, these updates are available for Office 365 customers. We are currently rolling out this feature to customers and should complete in the coming year. We have also improved Outlook’s rendering of other email services emojis. This means any other email app that recognizes emojis will display the emoji in their app.

Now, we properly represent emojis as true emojis.

#OUTLOOK FOR MAC SHOWS A LETTER INSTEAD OF A NUMBER FOR UNREAD MESSAGES UPDATE#

We’ve recently released an update that fixes this. J is the character in the windings font that is a smile, so that is what was displayed in Gmail, iOS Mail, etc. When that email would show up in another client that doesn’t support Wingdings font, it can’t show that character. Previously, we automatically changed “:)” to a smiley face character in the font face WingDings. ” Outlook uses Word as its authoring tool.

It was noticed by the Twitter massed mind and then confirmed by Microsoft after the fact. You won’t find this on any official list of Office updates (not so far anyway).

Office 365 subscribers will eventually get a proper smiley face rolled out in an update to Office 2016 for Windows/Mac. Our popular article Using emoji in Microsoft Office has details on bypassing Office’s problems with emoji Color Smiley emoji in Outlook 2016 for WindowsĬurrent versions of Office display an incompatible smiley emoji that often appears as the letter J – instead of 😊 If you’ve ever seen a message with a J in the middle – it’s because of Microsoft. After seven years they’ve finally fixed an annoying emoji bug in Outlook and they’ve done it in a typically sideways fashion. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.