[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[David Waite]

Michael Brown wrote:

>Sorry, I ment that the transports will have to do the translations when
>messages are sent to other IM systems.  For example, if a graphical Jabber
>user clicks the icon with the mouse for "email", they will see the icon on
>their client, and when they send it to a text only Jabber client, the other
>client will see :email:, however if they send it to someone on MSN, the MSN
>transport must know to translate :email: to (e) so that native MSN clients
>can interpret it. (and back again when messages come from MSN to Jabber.  So
>
What happens when someone wants to really send :email: or (e), rather 
than a graphical icon ?

-David Waite