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I was a flip-phone holdout for a long time. This was not generally supported in new devices sold up to 2015 (when I acquired my first smartphone, and my experie
by greggyb 7y ago
I was a flip-phone holdout for a long time. This was not generally supported in new devices sold up to 2015 (when I acquired my first smartphone, and my experience with good phones ended).
Every flip phone I owned did not play well with non-ASCII text. Receiving a message with an emoji would render the entire message, or if I was lucky just the portion following the emoji, unrenderable. Most phones I had failed to just rectangles, which I assume is their method of mojibake.
This was not a causal factor in my switch to a smartphone. It was annoying to have to explain character encodings to friends who didn't understand why they couldn't send me emoji-containing messages.
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