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 games , text emoticons in many cases are automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came into existence called “Emoticons.” Similarly, in some versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for instance 
and 
with a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly basic and replaced just the most straightforward and common character sequences, but over time they became so complex that the more specialized emoticons will often be input utilizing a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing countless items. Emoticons have expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to various still or moving images. Some of these graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; for example , an “emoticon” showing a guitar is likely to be employed to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software was created to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced having a graphical emoticon. For instance ,:dance: or (dance) might be replaced using 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) stated a problem with such features that happen to be not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to know beforehand what character-strings will be parsed into what kind of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan along with his boss, who is actually female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, that this boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” being a big set of red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, as a consequence of their transparency and small file size capabilities. Files can be created employing a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are built in vector format, for instance SVG, and automatically processed employing a graphics library. This gives SVG files for being automatically rendered like a GIF or PNG file, and that is appropriate for most browsers, which SVG seriously isn’t .
