Joshua Juran writes:
iChat does the same thing -- it forcibly converts strings of innocent ASCII characters into smiley images. I quickly learned to write "(a)" and "(b)" instead of "(A)" and "(B)", because "B)" got helpfully replaced by a smiley face wearing shades.
That's risky too if you continue the list, because some software converts '(c)' to '©' ... Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
