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 will often be automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called “Emoticons.” Similarly, using some versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for instance 
and 
which has a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly basic and replaced merely the most straightforward and common character sequences, but after a while they became so complex that this more specialized emoticons in many cases are input by using a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing hundreds of items. Emoticons have also expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to various still or moving images. A few of these graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; for instance , an “emoticon” showing a guitar could be employed to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is built to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced having a graphical emoticon. For instance ,:dance: or (dance) could possibly be replaced using a graphical dancing emoticon. The initial web forum software package to perform this transformation was Proxicom Forum, developed in 1996.
An August 2004 issue of the Risks Digest (comp.risks on USENET) pointed out problems with such features that are not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to find out beforehand what character-strings is going to be parsed into what sort of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan along with his boss, who is actually female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, that the boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” as being a big set of red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, as a consequence of their transparency and small file size capabilities. Files may be created utilizing a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are manufactured in vector format, for example SVG, and automatically processed employing a graphics library. This allows SVG files being automatically rendered being a GIF or PNG file, which can be appropriate for most browsers, which SVG just isn’t .
