cypri wrote:
Does anyone know how to make my Windows 7 capable of reading all those emojis, just like how an Apple iPhone does?
Well, if you exit (temporarily and for one moment only) from the specific case, you have a "plain", "normal" Excel file with *something* that does not display correctly.
So, generically speaking, this *something* that is NOT shown correctly *must* be some kind of external (not embedded) graphic resource, and what is actually in the Excel file are *some kind* of links that are "unresolved".
Specifically, it is well possible that the resource is actually inside a specific font, in Unicode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Color_Emoji
and what you see under Windows 7 is the effect of a "font substitution".
It should not be much difficult to find out which kind of link is in the Excel spreadsheet and where/what it "looks for" and place there the missing graphic resources, obtained from *somewhere* or viceversa change the link to point to a "hardcopy" of the image.
The support for the colour emoji fonts has been added surely in Windows 8 or 8.1, but it has to be seen if the "feature" of colourised fonts can be "back ported" to Windows 7 <img src="images/smiles/icon_confused.gif" alt="Confused" title="Confused" />
http://opentype.info/blog/2013/07/03/color-emoji-in-windows-8-1-the-future-of-color-fonts/
(I doubt it) and also if there is an effective one-to-one correspondence between the Apple (proprietary format) emoji mappings to Unicode and the Windows 8.1 Segoe UI Symbol font, and, as said earlier, it is possible that there are specific "WhatsApp" graphic resources that do not belong to a font.
It is also possible that the "same" Excel spreadsheet converted to HTML or XML can be seen "in colours" in Internet Explorer (but not in another browser):
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToEnterAndUseEmojiOnWindows81.aspx
If you check here:
http://getemoji.com/
the emojis are defined as:
Quote::
font-family: "Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","NotoColorEmoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji","EmojiSymbols";
but each OS/browser may render the symbols the same or differently or in colour vs. BW and have a smaller or bigger number of "blank squares".
jaclaz
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