On 9/16/11 7:49 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/16/11 2:15 PM, Ray_Net wrote: >> Ray_Net wrote: >> <snip> >> >> I have discussed with the guy who sent me a mail with a smiley in >> Outlook (J in Wingdings font) - He is not to blame .... >> >> :-) is *automatically transformed on his screen into a beautiful smiley. >> >> So, for him, it's easy. And he don't know that Outlook changed >> ":-)" Arial into "J" Wingdings. >> >> It would be nice if SM can show me a smiley like IE, Chrome and Safari does. >> >> Other issue. He told me that just after the transformation by outlook, >> if he depress the backsape key - the transfrmation is not done. >> He then send me this mail. and i received : - ) not transformed by SM as >> a smiley evenwhile i have set the option: "Display emoticons as >> graphics" - This is certainly due to the fact that the received mail is >> not in "pure text". Why limiting to pure text this option ??? >> >> In conclusion, the guy using outlook is *unable* to send me a smiley ... >> due to SM laws/attitude/options. >> >> > > You received : - ) ? That is NOT a smiley. (The term used in Mozilla > is "emoticon" since not all of them are smiling.) A smiling emoticon > would be :-) without any embedded spaces. >
My emoticon (above) was "colon-hyphen-rightparenthesis". Hover your cursor over it in Thunderbird to see the actual text, or start to reply with quoting my message. You will see the same for the other emoticon. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
