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This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
This style arose on ASCII NET, an early Japanese online service, in the 1980s. [3] [4] They often include Japanese typography in addition to ASCII characters, [2] and in contrast to Western-style emoticons, tend to emphasize the eyes, rather than the mouth. [5] Wakabayashi Yasushi is credited with inventing the original kaomoji (^_^) in 1986. [5]
An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [11] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.
An emoticon (/ əˈmoʊtəkɒn /, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely / ɪˈmɒtɪkɒn /, ih-MOTT-ih-kon), [1][2][3][4] short for emotion icon, [5] is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters —usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters —to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
Soft hyphen. In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN ()) or syllable hyphen, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens if they fall on the line end but remain invisible within the line. Two alternative ways of using the soft ...
Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used as to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as [ø] ⓘ and [œ] ⓘ, except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe] diphthong. The name of this letter is the same as the sound it represents (see usage).
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
Hold Ctrl + ⇧ Shift and type U followed by up to eight hex digits (on main keyboard or numpad). Then release Ctrl + ⇧ Shift. Type Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + U, then type up to eight hex digits, then type ↵ Enter. In LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, for example, only the second method works.