Markus Scherer wrote:
> Falkor wrote:
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>> Like 'em or hate 'em, those " :) " are here to stay. ...and there's at
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> Probably, although the more people from outside the computer-tech
> world join in, the smaller percentage of people will use these, like
> my mother-in-law...
>
> They are already encoded in Unicode, using two or more Unicode
> characters... using a colon and a closing parenthesis (I personally
> prefer the version with a "dash" nose) is all you need.
Methinks «We know what you need» is a bit patronizing.
> There are a couple of "real" smileys too, but some modern emailers
> actually recognize the regular form
the « regular »... the contrived way you mean.
> and display an image.
for what of a character.
> PS: ... and at the end of the day, Unicode is a _text_ encoding
> standard ... :-)
Yea, yea and this punctuation ;-) isn't text right ? Why ? Because
there is no character ;-) ! Why ? Because people already have what they
want ! And we know what they want.
Patrick
