Any Facebook experts

[ronk]

Somebody sent a post to a friend and I think it has been corrupted.
Ive seen the "sent" screen diump and Ive seen the received screen dump and the symbols don't match

The recipient has taken offence so I'm trying to get something of an explanation - Im not a Facebook user.



This is what was received




This is what was sent

 

[mmm-five]

If the emoji is a system-generated one (rather than an embedded picture/gif) then it looks like the receiving computer hasn't decoded the unicode for that emoji properly and so is displaying random symbols instead.

These boxes and question marks appear because emoji support on the sender’s device is not the same as emoji support on the device of the recipient. It could be two different OSes with differing levels of Unicode support; it could be an old client app without access to new emoji symbols; it could even be an outdated keyboard app or browser.

The emoji shown on the sending computer may not be identical to what was sent anyway, as the way Apple displays them on their OS may be slightly different to how Android or Windows (even between W10 and W7) may show them differently...or not at all in some cases in Windows 7.

 

[ronk]

Thanks for the reply -

The recipient likes a "drink" or two so thought the sender was referring to AA
You can't even start to imagine the rumpus its caused!

 

[mr.tourette]

Yes every person using it is generally an expert on fkin eveything in their own mighty opinion,.. bit like one or two members on here really