From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jul 21 10:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294F537B409 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r2.bfm.org [216.127.220.98]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:16:09 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010721120939.0087c100@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:09:39 -0500 To: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: emoticons in the Handbook In-Reply-To: <20010721022552.A61117@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:25 2001-07-21 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > Does anyone mind if Chern and I add emoticons to our list of cleanup >items? It appears that at least one reviewer was put off by our >liberal use of them : I tend to agree with him. We go out of the way not to use "can't", "isn't", etc, because we want to look professional. Emoticons kill that image. > Do people prefer to see ";)" in HTML output? We could of course add >an entity that only displays emoticons for HTML output if that would >be desired. No, I would prefer not to see emoticons at all. But if we are going to keep them, we should consider this: There is a Unicode for smiley face, in fact there are three of them: U+2323 - SMILE U+263A - WHITE SMILING FACE U+263B - BLACK SMILING FACE (those are hexadecimal numbers, obviously). Of the three, ☺ seems to be available on most browsers. Lynx can handle them all, but Windows browsers need a proper font, and the default fonts that come with Windows do not support U+2323, but do support U+263A and U+263B. Additionally, they support U+2639, which is defined as WHITE FROWNING FACE (as in :( that is). There also is U+2322 (FROWN), which, like SMILE, is not supported by the default Windows fonts. So, if we go with emoticons, we should define ⌣ and ⌢, then use ☺ and ☹ respectively in HTML, but probably use U+2323 and U+2322 in print (i.e., PostScript, PDF) -- though we may need to supply an appropriate PostScript font. Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message