A Smiley Orange Face Instead of an O

donna: I got a smiley orange face instead of an O...

A handshake instead of a kiss! (old commercial)

Colon-nospace-o =

Most common is 8-nospace-close parentheses =

Blog could check to see if there's a space or line-feed on either side of the thing before making it a smiley.
#twoweeks

Guide to mu.nu smilies:
http://smilies.mee.nu

Marginally related: Encoding change eliminates black diamonds.

This browser (Opera) defaults Ace pages to Unicode-UTF8. Upper-tier characters appear as black diamonds.

If I change encoding to Western Windows-1252, the black diamonds go away and I can actually see those modern characters.

But this message, with no special characters, would not post under that encoding. Doncha love this place.