I do wish apps (looking at you Slack and Teams) would stop converting my emoticons into emojis. I want :) not .
edit: HackerNews strips render emoji. It should be this: https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/
edit: HackerNews strips render emoji. It should be this: https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/
Settings -> Messages & Media -> Convert my typed emoticons to emoji
If I type punctuation, I want the punctuation, if I wanted the emoji I would have typed the damn emoji. I can't believe anyone thought altering people's messages without their consent was a good idea.
this is where I'd use the clapping emoji
The easiest way to differentiate it it to use a different number of carets for the "thing above this message" meaning. I like to use one caret for each message, so like if I was referring to the comment directly above mine it'd be ^ and for three messages up it'd be ^^^. You can also use context and position; usually I expect emoticons to appear at the end of a sentence while ^^^ appears at the start.
^_^ =^.^= -_- -_-' -_-U ^_^u *_* O_o? Ô_ô
^_^ gets abbreviated to ^^ and that's how you get it to be a smile.
Turn that frown upside down!
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Following link, I'm surprised there's so many platform specific :) variants