Re: Emoticons

Hans Aberg <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:37:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.text.unicode.devel
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On 18 Oct 2007, at 15:44, Doug Ewell wrote:

>> Anyway, a list of emoticons, collected from some email program  
>> (Eudora?):
>
> I'm almost afraid to check and see how many of these are in the  
> Emoji proposal.

Yeah, it was just a FYI :-). (And the "big boy" emoticon seems  
amiss :-).)

BTW, the only "official" (whatever that means) Internet emoticon  
defined, I think was the ":-)", and I thought it originally meant  
"please don't be offended by this" or something, and not as a  
substitute for the markup <joke>...</joke>. :-)

Knuth in his "TeX Book" pointed out that one can also use  
mathematical style:
   Joke 3.4.7. ...
And a truly dedicated mathematician will add:
   Proof. ... ∎

   Hans Åberg