Emoji keyboard ?

[Chelsea123]

The girlfriend and i normally use whatsapp to send text messages to each other.The smilie things show up on both our phones how they're are sent ie a snowman ( her phone is a BB 9105 ) but if i send her a normal sms and use the emoji keyboard she just recieves a black square and if she sends say a i recieve it like : ) .Is this normal and if not how do i correct it?,i have tried deleting the keyboard turning off my phone and then adding it again

Thanks in advance

Neil

 

[Mickey330]

Generally, unless you use Unicode, different devices cannot read the other's emojis. If you are not sending Apple's emojis to another Apple device - it won't be able to read them properly (and vice versa). More than likely, that is what is happening here.

Marilyn

 

[Chelsea123]

Ok thank you Marilyn i guessed it would be something like that. Just a quick question tho,why does whatsapp use the same emoji keyboard as the one Apple uses for normal sms,or is that because when you download whatsapp it's for the iphone ?

Sorry for what may seem a daft question

Neil