Ah, I thought it was something like that, but with client integration.
I remember back in the days of phpBB and vBulletin forums and MSN Messenger, they had special emoticons that would replace text strings with a graphical icon, say, 8) would make a smiley face with sunglasses. Or (L) would make a heart.
I got so annoyed at how out of place the graphical emoticons looked that I trained myself to write them backwards to not trigger the program to replace my text.
So instead of writing :) I write (:
Just as I wrote that sentence, I reflexively reversed the first smiley and got confused when I was about to write the second…
Sorry for the tangent, and thanks for the explanation.
Ah, I developed a similar habit for certain emoticons within messaging apps for example for something like :3 I’d replace the number 3 with the Cyrillic letter З which tends to look the same in most fonts, or otherwise switch the characters around as you do to not trigger the automatic emoji replacement haha
Ah, I thought it was something like that, but with client integration.
I remember back in the days of phpBB and vBulletin forums and MSN Messenger, they had special emoticons that would replace text strings with a graphical icon, say, 8) would make a smiley face with sunglasses. Or (L) would make a heart.
I got so annoyed at how out of place the graphical emoticons looked that I trained myself to write them backwards to not trigger the program to replace my text.
So instead of writing :) I write (:
Just as I wrote that sentence, I reflexively reversed the first smiley and got confused when I was about to write the second…
Sorry for the tangent, and thanks for the explanation.
Ah, I developed a similar habit for certain emoticons within messaging apps for example for something like :3 I’d replace the number 3 with the Cyrillic letter З which tends to look the same in most fonts, or otherwise switch the characters around as you do to not trigger the automatic emoji replacement haha