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, using some versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for example 
and 
having a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly basic and replaced just the most basic and common character sequences, but after a while they became so complex how the more specialized emoticons tend to be input utilizing a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing hundreds of items. Emoticons have also expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to a number of still or moving images. Some graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; by way of example , an “emoticon” showing a guitar may be accustomed to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is made to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced having a graphical emoticon. By way of example ,:dance: or (dance) could be replaced which has 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 with the Risks Digest (comp.risks on USENET) outlined a problem with such features that happen to be not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to learn in advance what character-strings are going to be parsed into what kind of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan along with his boss, who actually is female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, how the boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” being a big set of two red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, as a result of their transparency and small file size capabilities. Files could be created using a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are created in vector format, for instance SVG, and automatically processed employing a graphics library. This gives SVG files to be automatically rendered as a GIF or PNG file, that is appropriate for most browsers, which SVG isn’t .
