New dead horse emojicon ? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MosherIV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 11:49:24 am
content: Did I miss something or is it me?When did the 'flog a dead horse'emojicon appear on the board?Whatever......it is hilariousNow looking for a post to use it on.

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:00:52 pm
content: Ha ha, that's hilarious, and much needed.

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:10:38 pm
content: I just used it in the appropriate context on my last post.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:28:20 pm
content: Quote from: MosherIV on August 26, 2016, 11:49:24 amrigol debates

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:56:33 pm
content: Quote from: MosherIV on August 26, 2016, 11:49:24 amI suspect that you won't have to wait very long.

author: Chalcogenide
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 01:29:16 pm
content: Am I wrong or is the poor horse being hit on the nuts with a club?

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 02:16:02 pm
content: Quote from: JPortici on August 26, 2016, 12:28:20 pmPolitical threads or Analog versus digital scopes

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 03:06:18 pm
content: I expect to use it a lot / see it used a lot in threads I've replied in.Tim

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 10:21:35 pm
content: We also need a snickering/giggling one (for mischief) and a disgust one (like a poop emoji)

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 12:27:47 am
content: Suggestion: Change the "bullshit" emoji to a poop emoji, and make the meter a "prove it" emoji. Or you could get rid of the meter emoji entirely and change the DMM emoji to "testing". The police emoji seems to already be gone (it was useless anyway).The "blah" emoji is useless, and so is the sleeping one, both seeming to suggest a boring conversation (which is rather rude to say).

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 01:45:50 am
content: That Dave saw fit to add police and flogging a dead horse in an electronics forum in my view of things is trulyThat he didn't investigate adding something more worthwhile for electronics that we could all use like an Omega.Memberapellyopened this thread the day before in the Supporters Lounge and it has been entirely overlooked.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/supporters-lounge/can-we-have-an-omega-smiley/How that's something of real use.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 03:09:55 am
content: Quote from: tautech on August 27, 2016, 01:45:50 amAnd how on earth is an Omega symbol supposed to represent an emotion?They are called emoticons for a reason.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 03:14:09 am
content: Quote from: tautech on August 27, 2016, 01:45:50 amBut most/many (I believe) members, would get the following message:QuoteSo how are the rest of us suppose to know there was a "hidden" thread about it ?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 03:17:35 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 26, 2016, 11:29:34 pmThat is basically a list of the most popular emoticons.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 03:47:01 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on August 27, 2016, 03:09:55 amTell us we can easily place an Ohms symbol in a post then. I don't know and no doubt many others don't either.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 04:10:49 am
content: Quote from: MK14 on August 27, 2016, 03:14:09 amYou don't unless you've got 4 yellow blocks in your profile or more than 1K posts.But Dave's seen it now and gets it could be a good idea.There's a similar thread started that no doubt will head down the same path.....forum tweaks.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/extended-characters/

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 04:36:45 am
content: Quote from: tautech on August 27, 2016, 04:10:49 amThanks.Quote from: tautech on August 27, 2016, 03:47:01 amYes, I agree. Being able to easily put electronics symbols into posts, such as Ohms, Deg C, Deg F, Micro (units), would be useful to some people.Although you can apparently already put some/all of them in posts. It is NOT easy/obvious how to do it, to many of us.Personally I find it a bit of a pain that ohms is missing (or it is too difficult to know how to do it, currently), as it is quite common to need it in posts here.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 05:00:07 am
content: Quote from: tautech on August 27, 2016, 03:47:01 amPlace yes, easily no..\$ \Omega \$Tim

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 05:25:41 am
content: My horse is still moving, so it must still be alive.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 05:48:49 am
content: Quote from: T3sl4co1l on August 27, 2016, 05:00:07 amAnd therein lies the problem.A technical forum and we can't easily use some of the very most basic technical symbols.Needs fixing IMHO.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 07:54:39 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 26, 2016, 11:14:58 pmthe MSN messenger era is long gone, thank godas will that emoji filled bullshit 13yo likes so muchhey, just like MSN messenger

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 06:29:28 pm
content: Quote from: T3sl4co1l on August 27, 2016, 05:00:07 amFor anyone in the Mac world,KeyCharacterAide mémoireoption-zomega ?z is the last letter of the Roman alphabet, as is ? in Greekoption-kdegrees ?degreeskelvinoption-mmu µm for muare the standard keyboard short cuts and send proper Unicode for every browser I have ever tried them on. HOWEVER, they do not show up in the forum. However, they do show up correctly in preview. There's something seriously broken here.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 09:27:28 pm
content: What do you mean symbols aren't showing up here?Unusual symbol test (for mobile):There are supposed to be 18 symbols here, lets see how many are recognized and show up:°•??¤??¡¿Edit: 5/18 are recognized, that is rather poor

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2016, 04:27:04 am
content: Quote from: MK14 on August 27, 2016, 05:25:41 am

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2016, 06:46:08 am
content: Quote from: grifftech on August 28, 2016, 04:27:04 amA dead horse race....must be my one i bet on last time at the races, it probably is still running......

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2016, 07:08:53 am
content: Quote from: Cerebus on August 27, 2016, 06:29:28 pmAs has been discussed atExtended characters, the forum is not stored in Unicode, possibly for good reasons. All characters are converted to the Windows-1252 code page, which covers accented Latin characters, common currency signs, punctuation, and typographical symbols. The only Greek letter it includes is µ, because SI units need it.You can type many of these characters with the U.S. keyboard on MacOS, but there is no direct correspondence. Other characters require the 'U.S. Extended' keyboard or the Unicode keyboard. The degree sign is actually typed as option-shift-8 on a Mac; option-k is the Ring Above character, a diacritic symbol.Æþër ‹Åƒ†ø§‡÷›¤

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2016, 07:15:46 am
content: itlaian keyboard-> "°" like in °C is Shift+à