How to stop or fix Outlook.com rendering emoticons as letters

outlook.com

In Firefox and Chrome, outlook.com renders smiley faces (☺) as the character J.

This is because Firefox and Chrome do not support Wingdings font, which is what outlook.com uses to turn 🙂 into ☺.

Is there any way of fixing this or stopping it happening?

Best Answer

I'm afraid you can't stop that from happening, at least for now, see reference.

I'm on a Chromebook and wasn't able to find references on the internet about either Chrome OS or Chrome implementing the Unicode version 7.

Reference

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7862643/1536038