Example, 3rd different poster I’ve noticed today using these things, whatever the hey they are supposed to be.
The thing is, I cannot even tell what they are supposed to be, they’re so tiny…
Should such things be moderated or ruled upon? I’d hate to see the board drowning in a ton of these things.
They look like normal smileys on my device.
I see them fine.
You should see the ones built into my devices. There are 1000s
Those are bog standard emoji that have been in place here for about as long as the board’s been around–and you’re just now noticing them? Good thing they don’t have fangs, as my mother used to say. If you’re on a computer and you use the advanced view to post a reply they’re RIGHT THERE in the righthand column next to the text box. See? :smack: :)
:eek: :mad: :rolleyes: 
:o :dubious: 
You’ve never heard of emoticons? They help convey meanings and emotions that might get lost in plain text. They’ve been standard issue on most message boards for years. They’re even more varied and complex in things like text messaging.
By the way, happy 
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Unusual smileys?
The next that you see one, just shoot it down. ค้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ŭ
🤷
Your mileage may vary on how well whatever you’re using to read the board will translate Unicode characters. It’s safest to use the board’s inbuilt smiley menu (which should display on any browser that works with html), or the most common of upper ASCII symbols. In this thread I asked people to report what works and what doesn’t, and enough people had problems with emoticons that I don’t try to use them.
Did you check the OP’s link? It’s to a post with the inbuilt smilies in it, nothing odd or different at all. One wonders where exactly he’s been all this time that he doesn’t recognize them.
:eek:
That shoot down thing is cool!
Okay so I shouldn’t feel bad for being confused when I see regular smilies that have been on this board forever.
The ones in post #4 look perfectly normal. [Of course I know what a smiley is, jeez…]
The ones in my link look like tiny panorama’s or pics: 1st one looks like a crow, 2nd one a bunny, 3rd Yoda.
But it is likely a symptom of my rapidly deteriorating Vista-based system-yes I know I should upgrade, but that won’t happen until the holidays (depending on whether Santa has a new PC in store for me).
All I can think of is to try reloading that page with Ctrl-F5, which will reset the image cache. See if that gets the images to change back to the normal smileys.
I see… Grin, frown, and “eek”.
Hey that’s me! I promise when I wrote that post I just used the plain old smilies right off the menu in the reply screen.
What the heck is that??
Unicode lets you stack diacritic marks on top of each other basically endlessly. If you can figure out the decimal numeric character reference for a symbol*, you can repeat it any number of times and the board places all the marks in the same space.
the combining Tilde four times:
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*NCRs start with an ampersand, then a hash mark, a series of numbers and then a semicolon. So for the tilde, I had &# then 771 and ended with a ;. I can’t put it together or, you know, it will make a tilde.
Not only have those been available as long as I can recall, but this Board actually had a couple more I remember. Two of them were were an Hasidic Jew and a “Putz.” There may have been others.
Using Thai vowels to attack the preceding post was discussed in a 6-years ago thread: