Yup agreed myJabber allows you to turn em off as well. Although we are
only supporting a very small subset at the moment, we are in the process
of adding more for those msn lovers out there.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Peter Millard
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines


----- Original Message -----
From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[munch]

> As long as the odd graphics and weird text mangling stays off my 
> screen, I don't care what else you do with them.  As you're trying to 
> devise a text mangling scheme for these emoticons, don't forget that 
> some people use IM systems to discuss coding or computer usage.  I 
> really hate it when AIM (where most of my friends on IM are) destroys 
> lines of shell commands that contain '<' or '>'.  At least exodus 
> doesn't have _that_ problem.  If someone (not me) has a coding style 
> of :
>     j = func (i) ;
> exodus and msn will be really bad for communication!

I agree that this sucks, and it's also why emoticon usage is an option
in Exodus (as it should be in all IM clients). If you're a person who
finds the emoticon usage getting in the way, then just turn them off. :)

pgm.


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