Re: OT - Happy faces


"Wes Groleau" <Groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gaeqht$fan$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
anon aka wrote:
I tried to put a happy face in a few posts but when I copy the happy face character from the Windows Character Map it comes out as a ? (question mark)

Has anyone found a way to do it?

If you are using a properly written newsreader, AND you have a font installed that includes the glyphs, you should see two smileys and
one frownie on the next line:

☹ ☺ ☻

My Mac does not have the frownie, so I see a question mark there.

If you see three question marks, you either don't have the glyphs
in any font or your newsreader is too stupid to obey the UTF-8 headers.

If you see garbage, your newsreader is too stupid to obey the UTF-8 headers. ☺

If you have a newssender that allows this, you can set it to output
in UTF-8 or some other Unicode encoding. (UTF-8 is the best use of
bandwidth if you're posting mostly English.) Then you can either
paste in the character from somewhere else, or if you know how, you
can enter the character by number. The above are in order,
U+2639, U+263A, U+263B

If you convert those hex numbers to octal, you might be able to
type the octal number on the keypad while holding Alt in Windows.
I think that works for characters like é (octal 251, hex E8)

On Mac, select the Unicode Hex Input and do the four-digit hex
while holding down Alt.
--
Wes Groleau

Unusual ways of learning?
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I do see one frownie and two smilies. I just copied them to the clip board and will print them below:

☹ ☺ ☻

Now to post and see it they are there.

.

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