[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Michael Brown]

> I didn't mean that everything should be with words to be descriptive,
> like ":-)" itself is descriptive enough. Indeed, I would also want as
> much ASCII-art as possible. But for those other "expressions" (e.g.
> love) other things are needed and (l) (b) don't mean much to me.
> Suppose I'm a hardcore Windows-user and I talk to you through Jabber:
>
> I just (e) u. I also have a (i) for your project. Maybe we could discuss
> after a (~) or we could (b). I have some bad news, my (@) died, yeah, I
> know: (u) .
> Damn, I'm tired, well, look at the (o), I'll need some (c) , no I'll
> just (s) ... BTW, do not forget, it's my (^) tomorrow, hope to have good
> weather so (h) Anyway, I'll (t) or (m) you tomorrow.

That's awful.  If they had used [emailed] rather than (e) then it would
still be readable on textbased clients, and it wouldn't take any longer to
type on the graphical client, because they just select an icon from a list.

Michael.