Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:09:39 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emoticons in the Handbook Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010721120939.0087c100@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20010721022552.A61117@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
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At 02:25 2001-07-21 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > Does anyone mind if Chern and I add emoticons to our list of cleanup >items? It appears that at least one reviewer was put off by our >liberal use of them : I tend to agree with him. We go out of the way not to use "can't", "isn't", etc, because we want to look professional. Emoticons kill that image. > Do people prefer to see ";)" in HTML output? We could of course add >an entity that only displays emoticons for HTML output if that would >be desired. No, I would prefer not to see emoticons at all. But if we are going to keep them, we should consider this: There is a Unicode for smiley face, in fact there are three of them: U+2323 - SMILE U+263A - WHITE SMILING FACE U+263B - BLACK SMILING FACE (those are hexadecimal numbers, obviously). Of the three, ☺ seems to be available on most browsers. Lynx can handle them all, but Windows browsers need a proper font, and the default fonts that come with Windows do not support U+2323, but do support U+263A and U+263B. Additionally, they support U+2639, which is defined as WHITE FROWNING FACE (as in :( that is). There also is U+2322 (FROWN), which, like SMILE, is not supported by the default Windows fonts. So, if we go with emoticons, we should define ⌣ and ⌢, then use ☺ and ☹ respectively in HTML, but probably use U+2323 and U+2322 in print (i.e., PostScript, PDF) -- though we may need to supply an appropriate PostScript font. Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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