emoticon & smileys
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Happy |  |
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On the phone |
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Sad |  |
:-c | Call me |
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Winking |  |
~X( | At wits’ end |
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Big grin |  |
:-h | Wave |
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;;) | Batting eyelashes |  |
:-t | Time out |
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>:D< | Big hug |  |
8-> | Daydreaming |
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:-/ | Confused |  |
I-) | Sleepy |
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Love struck |  |
8-| | Rolling eyes |
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:”> | Blushing |  |
L-) | Loser |
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:-O | Surprise |  |
:O) | Clown |
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X( | Angry |  |
8-} | Silly |
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:> | Smug |  |
<:-P | Party |
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B-) | Cool |  |
(:| | Yawn |
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:-S | Worried |  |
=P~ | Drooling |
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#:-S | Whew! |  |
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Thinking |
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>:) | Devil |  |
#-o | D’oh |
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Crying |  |
=D> | applause |
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Laughing |  |
:-SS | Nailbiting |
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=)) | Rolling on the floor |  |
:-w | Waiting |
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=(( | Broken heart |  |
[-( | Not talking |
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O:-) | Angel |  |
:-< | Sigh |
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:-* | Kiss |  |
:-$ | Don’t tell anyone |
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:-B | Nerd |  |
>:P | Phbbbbt |
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=; | Talk to the hand |  |
<):) | Cowboy |
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:^o | Liar |  |
3:-O | Cow |
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/:) | Raised eyebrow |  |
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Monkey |
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(~~) | Pumpkin |  |
:@) | Pig |
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Tongue |  |
:-& | Sick |
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Straight face |  |
@-) | Hypnotized |
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*-:) | Light bulb |  |
~:> | Chicken |
In web forums, instant messengers and online flash games , text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which had become called “Emoticons.” Similarly, using versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for example 
and 
which has a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly basic and replaced only the most basic and common character sequences, but with time they became so complex the more specialized emoticons will often be input by using a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing hundreds of items. Emoticons have also expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to many different still or moving images. Some graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; by way of example , an “emoticon” showing a guitar may be used to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is made to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced with a graphical emoticon. By way of example ,:dance: or (dance) might be replaced having a graphical dancing emoticon. The initial web forum software package to perform this transformation was Proxicom Forum, developed in 1996.
An August 2004 issue from the Risks Digest (comp.risks on USENET) brought up a problem with such features which are not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to learn ahead of time what character-strings might be parsed into which kind of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan together with his boss, who actually is female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, the boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” like a big couple of red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, as a result of their transparency and small quality capabilities. Files could be created employing a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are built in vector format, for instance SVG, and automatically processed using a graphics library. This enables SVG files for being automatically rendered as being a GIF or PNG file, which can be compatible with most browsers, which SVG is not .
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