Talk:Emoticon/Archive 2

message: Shouldn't there be a section for emoticons made with certain uncommon characters, such as :Þ, :Δ, :ζ, ... ? <FONT COLOR="#00AA00">тə</FONT><FONT COLOR="#00CC00">zє</FONT><FONT COLOR="#00FF00">ті</FONT>  — Preceding undated comment added 19:24, 22 March 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character Emoticons 

message: I've been playing online games on servers with shared Japanese populations since 1997, and I've never encountered ;_; for crying, but I saw T_T all the time.  I think that might be their choice on sans-serif fonts, as it indicates the eyes closed with tears running out of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.249.222 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 14 April 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen ;_; used by native Korean speakers on Korean-based games before. --Psyk0 12:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  East Asian crying 

message: we have spam on the external links section... like "First and Huge emoticon collection" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.232.60.224 (talk • contribs) 04:42, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  SPAM 

message: Ķσ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.29.39.1 (talk • contribs) 05:12, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SMILE 

message: RTL (Right To Left) languages like Arabic use RTL order
example:
بسمة :-)
حزن :-(
أهلاُ محمد كيف حالك؟ سعيد :) أم حزين :( ؟!
Note that the writing order is the same for example: :) is writen : first then ) but because the write direcation is RTL it will look like (:
if write the first example without using  it will look like 
بسمة :-)
حزن :-(
أهلاُ محمد كيف حالك؟ سعيد :) أم حزين :( ؟!
note how it look like in the middel of RTL text
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Zayani (talk • contribs) 07:49, 24 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  RTL Languages 

message: Hey, I can't see the white frowning face (U+2639). I can see both the white and black smiling faces just fine. I am using Windows XP Pro with Internet Explorer 6.  When I log on remotely to a Unix machine with Mozilla, I can see the frowning face. I'm guessing this is an issue due to not downloading unnecessary characters. (I can't see any Japanese or Chinese characters, but I'd rather have the 5MB of extra spce on my HDD. 8^) ) I wonder if anyone else with IE has this problem? -Hyad 05:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
:Hmm... according to Character Map, it doesn't exist. *does his magic* ☹! Internet Explorer's likely the problem. Trash it and go Firefox. --Ihope127 01:37, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't see white frowning face (U+2639) 

message: (\m/) ^_^ (\m/)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Stormwatch (talk • contribs) 02:29, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Now this is a vivid one! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsklee (talk • contribs) 13:40, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heavy metal emoticon 

message: Currently emoticons are in a list, and each emoticon is separated by its description with "........", and the descriptions are made to line up in a column. However, alignment of descriptions can be a chore and it can potentially differ depending on OS, browser, and font.  So how about using a table instead? Here's an example:
^^           	very happy
m(_ _)m      	bowing
(`ヘ´)        	annoyed
（´・ω・｀）      	deflated
（ ´Д｀）       	nonplussed, or panting
（　ﾟДﾟ）       	semi-angry
┐('～`；)┌     	don't know the answer
（´∀｀）        	carefree
< ｀∀´> 	stereotypical Korean character
（　´_ゝ`）;     	snob
Σ(゜д゜;)      	dumfounded
(*´Д`)       	become sexually excited
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tokek (talk • contribs) 02:47, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  list versus table 

message: The following is a list of emoticons removed from the Internet slang article.  Please migrate these to the Emoticon article as appropriate.  —RaD Man (talk) 20:24, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Internet slang]] emoticon migration 

message: I've removed the information about some chap called Rory Carson inventing the <3 symbol in 2002: it seems a little dubious to me, and I can't find any information about this amazing discovery anywhere else. Is there a reliable source for this datum? αγδεε (ε τ c) 20:57, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No. I used (and saw used) <3 before then, and that is invalidated by information in the article. --BDD 13:31, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps...the chap is from another planet and it was something like...you know, reinvented the wheel...:-)--JohanL 18:44, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  <3 "invented by Rory Carson"? 

message: The East Asian Style section really needs to refer to the Shift-JIS_art wiki article.  Made minor revision to that effect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.82.81.30 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick edit 

message: Why are the examples of “posture emoticons” exclusively of masturbation? —Frungi (not logged in) 24.51.217.233 04:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Posture emoticons 

message: Something seems to have deleted most of these. MrVacBob 02:20, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complex examples 

message: :A few people turn the smiley around, a "left handed" smiley (: This left-handed smiley can sometimes cause miscommunication though, since some hardcore net addicts tend to drop the  : representing the eyes [leaving ) instead of  :) ] so what was intended to be a smile could be interpreted as a frown.
Is this actually true? I have never seen this. I know people do left-handed smiley's, but do people ever leave out the ':' character? Gerrit CUTEDH 20:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  colonless smileys 

message: The Lili reference was actually talking about the smiley, not about emoticons. This part of the Emoticon article has been referenced many times by outside sites and incorrectly made people think that the emoticon was around before computers. Another reason why Wikipedia, even if it were fully referenced, is still fallible. Ashibaka tock 03:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major error

message: First of all, Anime style emoticons are used in many, many places, not just "anime forums." So I made a note of that.
Secondly, many anime style emoticons are often called "Kirbies," not just <(^_^)>. So I made that a note in the introductory section as well. (And it is notable as there are many people who refer to them as "Kirbies").
Thirdly, there was some inconsistency in the way the emoticons were presented so I changed them all to using parentheses and underscores when applicable and made a note in the intro that braces (for the outline) and periods and hyphens (for the mouth/nose) could be used as well.
Fourth, I moved some complex and basic emoticons back and forth. There were a few that weren't where they should have been.
Fifth, I moved the "Basic Examples" text to the "Anime Style" intro because it applies to both sections.
-- Hinotori(talk)|(ctrb) 15:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding my changes