Questions tagged [emoticons]

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Which Unicode characters do smilies like ٩(•̮̮̃•̃)۶ consist of?

How do I make Unicode texts like the one in the title, or like the following, without resorting to copy+paste? ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃). As an aside, note that in your browser the above example should look like:
Anirudh Goel
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How to create a new emoticon for skype?

I'm aware of hidden emoticons of skype, but I'd like to create my own emoticon. Is that possible to do? If so, how can I do that? Is there any tool for that?
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Emoji characters not displaying correctly on Windows 7

Is there a specific font or something I need to install/download/configure in order to see emoji characters? Emoji are picture characters/emoticons often used in Japanese webpages and messages. People can post these from their phones to a site like…
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Smileys in Outlook, how to prevent it

When I type the emoticon :) in Outlook 2007, it turns into a smiley face, as in a face inside of a circle...Is there a way for me to prevent Outlook from doing that? I just want a plain old colon and parentheses... Thanks! Other than putting a…
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How do you use more emoticons in Office Communicator?

Is there any way to use emoticons beyond the default drop down list in Office Communicator 2007 R2? Do you have to install them, or can you just type in different codes? Is this even possible, or are the defaults the only ones you can use?
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How does one paste code into an Office Communicator conversation

Whenever you paste code into Office Communicator, it decides to convert half of your code into emoticons. I'd like to prevent this from happening, so the other side can read the code, and copy it as well. There is an option to turn off showing…
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How to Disable Emoticons in Microsoft Office Communicator

Communicator is the preferred way of dialog between developers in the organization I work in. The program, however, has some screwed up default settings: For instance, when you paste code into a conversation, there are often changes so that code is…
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Text smiley faces show up as the letter J in emails

Context: I'm on a Mac and use Airmail as my email desktop client Whenever I receive emails where people have typed a smiley face, it shows up as the letter J. So :) becomes J. I read this could be because the sender is using Outlook and the font…
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Unwanted automatic formatting in Lync 2010

I would like to type a file path or URL into Lync 2010 without it being converted to a hyperlink, and I would like to be able to use punctuation without it unexpectedly getting converted to emoticons. For example, if I send: Type this: mount…
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Source of emoticons in Office Communicator 2007

Let's say I really like some of the emoticons that Office Communicator 2007 has (like I dunno, the (woi) icon with the building blocks) and I want to obtain the .gif or whatever kind of image file it is so I can add it as a custom emot on other IM…
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How do I prevent the Skype emoticon cache emo_cache_v2 directory from being populated with automatically downloaded images?

I hate to ask the same question in multiple places, and I asked for the same question at the Skype community forum, but the answer at that forum just suggested that, unfortunately, there is no way to disable the feature I wouldn't like to use. So…
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Add or remove single pixels from selection in Photoshop?

Sometimes in Photoshop I'm working with images at very close-up levels, such as small animated GIFs and emoticons. Often I'm zoomed in all the way, working at pixel level. If I've got a selection loaded, but want to 'edit' it by adding - or removing…
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Typing emoji in Mac OSX Lion

So 10.7 comes with support for Emoji. I can copy/paste them from the character viewer (like ), but I have no idea how to actually type them.
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Pandoc: Using standardized unicode Emoji

I want to use flag: Japan emoticon with unicode U+1F1EF U+1F1F5 as defined in the standard Full Emoji List, v12.0, inside markdown (rendered with Pandoc). Given that this Emoticon is not defined inside Pandoc sourcecode: pandoc/Emoji.hs at master ·…
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Is there an emoticon to express irony?

I use irony rather often, but in written texts such as email I'm often afraid that it might be misinterpreted by the reader. Therefore I'd like to use an emoticon to make the irony explicit, but I'm not sure which one is most often used for this…
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