Emoji completely different when sending and reading emails on Outlook.com

Henrik Stougaard 25 Reputation points
2026-06-23T08:22:47.0433333+00:00

Hi,

I just had a very unfortunately situation happen where I sent a grinning emoji, but after sending that same emoji shows up as a middle finger emoji.

After experimenting a bit with this, all emoji in Outlook.com's emoji picker do not render correctly.

This is the same email - on the left the message panel, on the right the reading panel. These two emoji are completely incorrect in the reading panel:User's image

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Henrik Stougaard 25 Reputation points
2026-06-23T08:33:27.23+00:00

Turned out to be a font corruption issue local to my Macbook installation. This may be closed :)

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