Enable Emoji icons on the iPhone
Saturday, November 29, 2008
So far this has started to work on the latest (2.2) firmware for the iPhone.
You need to edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist on the device ->
I found it best to sftp in to the phone, make a backup, and edit the file using Apple’s Property List Editor. Copy the file back to /User/Library/Preferences/ . On the iPhone go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards -> Japanese and enable Emoji. That’s it.