emoticon & smileys
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Happy |  |
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On the phone |
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Sad |  |
:-c | Call me |
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Winking |  |
~X( | At wits’ end |
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Big grin |  |
:-h | Wave |
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;;) | Batting eyelashes |  |
:-t | Time out |
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>:D< | Big hug |  |
8-> | Daydreaming |
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:-/ | Confused |  |
I-) | Sleepy |
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Love struck |  |
8-| | Rolling eyes |
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:”> | Blushing |  |
L-) | Loser |
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:-O | Surprise |  |
:O) | Clown |
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X( | Angry |  |
8-} | Silly |
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:> | Smug |  |
<:-P | Party |
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B-) | Cool |  |
(:| | Yawn |
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:-S | Worried |  |
=P~ | Drooling |
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#:-S | Whew! |  |
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Thinking |
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>:) | Devil |  |
#-o | D’oh |
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Crying |  |
=D> | applause |
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Laughing |  |
:-SS | Nailbiting |
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=)) | Rolling on the floor |  |
:-w | Waiting |
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=(( | Broken heart |  |
[-( | Not talking |
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O:-) | Angel |  |
:-< | Sigh |
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:-* | Kiss |  |
:-$ | Don’t tell anyone |
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:-B | Nerd |  |
>:P | Phbbbbt |
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=; | Talk to the hand |  |
<):) | Cowboy |
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:^o | Liar |  |
3:-O | Cow |
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/:) | Raised eyebrow |  |
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Monkey |
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(~~) | Pumpkin |  |
:@) | Pig |
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Tongue |  |
:-& | Sick |
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Straight face |  |
@-) | Hypnotized |
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*-:) | Light bulb |  |
~:> | Chicken |
In web forums, instant messengers and online games , text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which had become called “Emoticons.” Similarly, some versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for example 
and 
which has a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly easy and replaced merely the most basic and common character sequences, but after a while they became so complex the more specialized emoticons tend to be input utilizing a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing hundreds of items. Emoticons have expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to a variety of still or moving images. Some of these graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; by way of example , an “emoticon” showing a guitar may be employed to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is built to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced which has a graphical emoticon. By way of example ,:dance: or (dance) may very well be replaced with a graphical dancing emoticon. The very first web forum software package to perform this transformation was Proxicom Forum, developed in 1996.
An August 2004 issue of the Risks Digest (comp.risks on USENET) pointed out a problem with such features that are not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to know in advance what character-strings will be parsed into which kind of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan together with his boss, who actually is female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, the boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” as being a big set of two red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, because of their transparency and small file size capabilities. Files could be created by using a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are made in vector format, for instance SVG, and automatically processed by using a graphics library. This allows SVG files for being automatically rendered being a GIF or PNG file, which can be appropriate for most browsers, which SVG isn’t .
