On 23-7-2009 2:58, David H. Burns wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> On 22-7-2009 1:26, David H. Burns wrote:
>>> andrel wrote:
>>>
>>>> That you see your smiley does not mean everybody else will.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Did you see it? I did when I read my own post. I don't think 
>>> it shows up in the text in
>>> my "sent" file. These matters get complicated.
>>> :) (smiley ?)
>>>
>>
>> I do. In your post, not when replying :) , neither yours nor mine.
>> The point I tried to make earlier is that it depends on the mail 
>> reader of the person *reading*. You don't have an influence on it. You 
>> type a colon followed by a bracket, that is what you sent and what is 
>> supported by NNTP. After that somebody is trying to cleverly replace 
>> them by rotated smileys, which is OK as long as they get it right :/
>> IIRC they have problems with exotic ones like \o/ perhaps because they 
>> can conceivably be in a real post or in /ASCII art/.
>>
>> In short, there is a big chance that what you will see is not what I 
>> wrote. Perhaps it is what I intended.
> 
> Thanks, again, Andrel. The smileys work, :/ and \o/ came through as the 
> Ascii characters.

:/ might have been a smiley too, but isn't in TB. I remember having 
problems to understand the \o/ when I first met him, and am not 
surprised that TB doesn't replace it. I was expecting italics for /ASCII 
art/ but apparently that should have been /ASCII/ /art/. which is 
strange because *bold face* and _under line_ do range over the space.

> I'm using Thunderbird.

me too.

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