[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Adam Theo]

Mattias Campe <mattias.campe at rug.ac.be>
> I personally think that the representation of an emoticon should b
> descriptive, because it could be that people use a non-emoticon client
> (e.g. they find all those emoticons overhead). So instead of (l) (MSN
 > example) we could use :love: Because I think "I :love: you" is more
> comprehensible than "I (l) you" (Hmm, maybe a bad example ;-) ). A
> problem that you have then, is that it will be probably all English. We
> could use esperanto instead, but I don't think a lot of people know a
> lot of esperanto ;-)...

I think your suggestion of meaningful emoticons is a good idea. Perhaps 
a simple JEP is in order to standardize emoticons accross Jabber clients 
(if the client even wants to, nothing forcing them to follow it). Also, 
I think I'll add meaningful emoticons to my new Jabber Client Guidelines 
http://www.theoretic.com/?Jabber_Client_Guidelines .

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