Re: [CGUYS] Vista-Windows mail and Emoticon's question

2009-05-14 Thread Tony B
bbcode is really a replacement for html - it allows doing things without using html, which is always a dangerous thing to allow members to do. Yes, I see the character now. ☺ It's a high number so may only be present in certain versions of the font, like maybe the Western whatever that we both hav

Re: [CGUYS] Vista-Windows mail and Emoticon's question

2009-05-14 Thread Terry Kilburg
Tony I just rechecked, my mail and news sending formats are still both set to html and not plain text. bbcode is the older, simpler form of html, isn't it? I just have 2 basic smileys. You can find them in your character map by looking under the Arial Font and under Unicode...the smileys are ~

Re: [CGUYS] Vista-Windows mail and Emoticon's question

2009-05-13 Thread Tony B
What you may be describing is standard "bbcode" which replaces some character combinations with graphics on some web forums. She's probably got html email turned off, so she doesn't see the graphics you send via email. Or, you've got yours set to only send plain text email (a wise decision in the

Re: [CGUYS] Vista-Windows mail and Emoticon's question

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Dunford
> When i hold Shift and press the colon and the parenthesis keys, my > output doesn't change...it remains as :) for me and the receiver. > However, when i input those characters in a web post and post to the > Web, it shows up as an emoticon. Why is it that my keystrokes don't > change into emotico

[CGUYS] Vista-Windows mail and Emoticon's question

2009-05-13 Thread Terry Kilburg
When i hold Shift and press the colon and the parenthesis keys, my output doesn't change...it remains as :) for me and the receiver. However, when i input those characters in a web post and post to the Web, it shows up as an emoticon. Why is it that my keystrokes don't change into emoticons all