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Questions tagged [emoticons]

Anything related to emoticons or "smileys", i.e. short sequences of ASCII characters (2 or 3 usually) that can be seen as little, stylized faces showing some kind of emotion. Emoticons date back to the origin of the Internet and have been and are used to convey "emotional information" in written messages.

Anything related to emoticons or "smileys", i.e. short sequences of ASCII characters (2 or 3 usually) that can be seen as little, stylized faces showing some kind of emotion. Emoticons date back to the origin of the Internet and have been and are used to convey "emotional information" in written messages.

Some examples:

:-)   happy face, also  :)
:-(   sad face, also  :(
:-D   full-teeth smile, also  :D
=8-O  surprised
:o)   clown
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How to properly print a list of unicode characters in python?

I am trying to search for emoticons in python strings. So I have, for example, em_test = ['\U0001f680'] print(em_test) [''] test = 'This is a test string ' if any(x in test for x in em_test): print ("yes, the emoticon is there") else: print…
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RichTextBox replace string with emoticon / image

Within a RichtTextBox I want to automatically replace emoticon strings (e.g. :D) with an emoticon image. I got it working so far, except that when I write the emoticon string between existing words / strings, the image gets inserted at the end of…
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How to search emoticon/emoji in elasticsearch?

I am trying to search emoticon/emoji containing text in elasticsearch. Earlier, I have inserted tweets in ES. Now I want to search for example smile or sad faces related tweets. I tried the following 1) used equivalent of unicode values of smile,…
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Prevent GitHub for Windows from adding emoticons to my initial commit message

I'm new to git, and to GitHub. I'm using the GitHub for Windows program on Windows 7 64-bit. What I dislike is that when I create a new local repository, the initial change where the .gitattributes file is added is given a commit message containing…
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Copying emoticon "text" from a richtextbox showing image in wpf

I am looking for a good, clean way to enable copying of text from a richtextbox displaying emoticons. Think of skype, where you can select a chat and it will copy the emoticon images and convert them to their textual representations (smiley image to…
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How to add spaces around a substring if spaces aren't already there yet?

Example input string: test:)test:)test:) :) test:p test Wanted output string: test :) test :) test :) :) test :p test As you can see in the example above, I want to parse the string and produce an output string with spaces added around all…
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Iphone emoticons like Line app

I'm trying to create chat interface like the Line app where you can write emoticons. I've tried a couple different methods: A UIWebView for cell: I think that's how they're doing it but don't know how they are caching the info so is that fast. A…
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Emoticons from iPhone to Python/Django

I'm trying to save comments from an iPhone app that may and nowadays most likely will include emoticons. No matter what I do, I can't save the emoticons to the MySQL database ... Constant Unicode errors. Python 2.6.5 Django 1.2.1 MySQL database…
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Blackberry: Emoticons in Chat Application

I want to make a chat application where the emoticons are necessary. I was trying to write my own TextBox to handle some unicode caracters and replace them with smiles and emoticons, but that was a hard work to do and I encountered many…
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How to select only rows containing emojis and emoticons in Python?

I have DataFrame in Python Pandas like below: sentence ------------ I like it +1 One :-) :) hah I need to select only rows containing emoticons or emojis, so as a result I need something like below: sentence ------------ +1 One :-) :) How can I…
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Emoticons insertion in input method Editor (IME?)

How can I insert emoji/smiley/emoticons in an input method editor (in soft keyboard) ? which method should I use for that purpose? To create a True type font ? (I think that the font comes in one color) To use SpannableStringBuilder and attatch the…
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Why can python iterate over strings of utf-8 but not emoticons?

Consider this: s = u"おはよう" print len(s) for c in s: print c The output is 4 お は よ う which is what I expect Now with emojis: s = u"hi " Output is 5 h i ???? ???? Why is that? How can I fix it? I have looked at various links before but can't get…
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Unity: How to use TextMesh to display Emojis

I am making a 3D environment in Unity which is designed to retrieve Tweets and display them using Unity's TextMesh. The problem arises when a tweet includes an emoji (emoticons such as and , which should appear as smiley faces in your browser).…
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How to remove emojis from my Github commits?

I can find plenty of information about adding them. However, I do not want them in the first place. It seems like Github is adding these to my commits at random as I am most certainly not putting them in myself. I do not want "boom" or "camel" icons…
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UITextField custom emoticons ( icons )

I have a little problem: I need to use custom emoticons in uitextfield, as I know - iOS emotions are unicode characters. To write system emoticon I just need to print something like \ue413 and it will become into the image. How I can do this with…
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