Are the emoticons of Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp compatible with each other?

Published Sep 21, 2014

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Now that Whatsapp has been acquired by Facebook, are the Whatsapp emoticons compatible with Facebook Messenger and vice-versa?

Howard B

2014-09-21 18:31:07

If they use the standard Unicode Emoji, then yes, they would be (each image would be mapped to a 16-bit Unicode character).

Dr.sunil V

2014-09-24 16:52:18

Thanks

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