Solved MMS messages from phone display emojis as odd characters

edwardp

I've noticed with Vivaldi Mail and even with my home ISP's e-mail, when I send an MMS message (which includes emojis) from the mobile phone, to an e-mail address, the mail viewer - whether I use an e-mail app or through the respective web site - displays the emojis as they are (correctly) and also as garbage characters. The stock messaging app as well as Google Messages, treat messages addressed to an e-mail address as MMS messages, not as text/SMS.

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Testing emojis. 🙄 😒 😁

Could there be an explanation as to why this occurs? Is the mail servers' software possibly not treating the e-mail correctly, or perhaps it's an issue with the emojis themselves? Although, when testing this to an e-mail address at AOL/Yahoo, the garbage characters are replaced with the actual emojis, essentially displaying the emojis twice.

Gaëlle

@edwardp thanks for sharing these issues. Since you can reproduce it with your home ISP's email as well, we feel that issue should be fixed on the stock & Google messaging app. In case you feel otherwises, feel free to report it here: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues so that the devs from RoundCube can consider it.

edwardp

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edwardp

@Gwen-Dragon said in MMS messages from phone display emojis as odd characters:

@edwardp The text/html part has no charset in content-type, thus results to be decoded ascii. The mail was not conform to mail standards.

Thank you for looking at it.

Probably best to use ASCII emojis then, if necessary.

edwardp

@Gwen-Dragon Sorry for replying to an old topic. I attempted to duplicate this with the built-in Vivaldi Mail client (using vivaldi-stable), with the same results.

But one issue corrected vs Thunderbird, is when sending an SMS message to e-mail from the phone, the carrier includes their logo in the resulting e-mail. Thunderbird will only display placeholders and not display anything except the SMS text.

Although there is a lot of white space showing, Vivaldi Mail correctly displayed the text with the carrier logo, without any problems.