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Gmail turning :) into J

I noticed the gmail turns smilies :) into the letter J. Why is that?

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Posted 2006-12-06T12:12:50Z
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Yaniv

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There are two possible reasons why it's J of all letters:

1. Microsoft? Gmail?? it must be a conspiracy!

or,

2. It's because in Windows, the Smiley character is created using the Wingdings font, where it occupies the same position that is occupied by J in textual fonts (like Arial).

In fact, when sending a smiley in an email, this is the HTML generated by Outlook:

J

Gmail, which doesn't recognize the non-standard Wingdings font, removes it, and is left with the famous J.

Posted 2006-12-06T13:44:41Z

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I noticed it a long time ago (I actually sent someone a mail with complaints about all the Js he was sending me). Turns out that it happened with mails sent from Outlook. Outlooks changes :) to a smilie character that Gmail doesn't seem to be able to handle, so it changes it to a J.

I wonder why J, of all letters, was chosen for this job.

Posted 2006-12-06T12:59:41Z

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Rejected slogan #235:

Yedda - a brain the size of a planet.

There are two possible reasons why it's J of all letters:

1. Microsoft? Gmail?? it must be a conspiracy!

or,

2. It's because in Windows, the Smiley character is created using the Wingdings font, where it occupies the same position that is occupied by J in textual fonts (like Arial).

In fact, when sending a smiley in an email, this is the HTML generated by Outlook:

J

Gmail, which doesn't recognize the non-standard Wingdings font, removes it, and is left with the famous J.

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