[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Michael Brown]

> 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 ?

Turn them off or live with them.  We could escape them I guess, but I don't
really see the point.

Michael