[access-uk] Re: emoticons
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:35:23 -0000
Thanks Benjamin for this explanation -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: emoticons
| Andy Collins wrote:
| > Thanks for this description, but it does rather sound like the emoticon
of a
| > smiley face is sideways on, with the eyes[2 dots of the colon] being one
| > above the other rather than side by side! -
|
| Actually, that's precisely how it is. Text emoticons are often rotated
| 90 degrees so that you'd need to tilt your head to see them correctly.
| The fundamental reason for that is that text emoticons typically occur
| in a long line of text. You can't build a column of characters because
| you don't know the width of the output display, so you have to just put
| one character after another in the stream of characters.
|
| Graphical versions that replace emoticons with images tend to retilt
| emoticons so that they are right ways up.
|
| The smiley is a classic example of this. The text smiley is rotated 90
| degrees to the left, but the graphical smiley is right ways up.
|
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